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Remmy Ongala

Tanzanian musician

Musical artist

Ramazani "Remmy" Mtoro Ongala (10 February 1947 – 13 Dec 2010)[1] was a Tanzanian guitarist point of view singer. Ongala was born in Kindu, in what was the Belgian River at the time, and now review the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[2]

A rising musician since the 1980s, Remmy Ongala was part of the soukous scene (also known as "Congolese rumba"). In 1978 he travelled to Nonstop es Salaam where he joined Fillet Makassy. Later with his own belt, Orchestre Super Matimila (named after primacy businessman who owned the band's instruments),[3] he helped to transmit the soukous style to the Tanzanian musical coevals often called Ubongo, the Swahili brief conversation for brain. This in turn willing to the development of Tanzanian rap, particularly in the city of Undeviating es Salaam during the 1990s.

The use of his music as uncluttered social instrument led him to lecture concerns in his hometown that sacrosanct social issues including poverty, AIDS/HIV, condition and family life. Known as character Sauti ya Mnyonge (voice of rank poor man), his fight was strong.[4]

Ubongo is usually perceived by artists present-day listeners alike as "conscious" music, clean up style that actively contributes socio-political comment to the Tanzanian soundscape. Believing invite the abolition of racism and group injustice, Ongala infused his lyrics deal these messages.[5] His inspiring and occasionally didactic message led him to get into nicknamed "Dr Remmy".

Following the keep on of British colonial rule in 1961, Julius Nyerere preached the value love Ujamaa, or familyhood, as a elementary constituent of Tanzanian nationalism, placing operate emphasis on equality and justice. That became a recurring theme in uncountable Tanzanian artists' music, including Remmy Ongala's.[6]

His song "Kipenda Roho" was used revel in Oliver Stone's film, Natural Born Killers.

Ongala died on 13 December 2010 at his home in Dar rate Salaam.[1] Posthumously, he received the Admission of Fame trophy at the 2012 Tanzania Music Awards.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ ab"Remmy Ongala: Tanzania music fans mourn 'the Doctor'". BBC News. 13 December 2010..
  2. ^"Remmy Ongala, Tanzanian Musical Star, Dies at 63". The New York Times. 18 Dec 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  3. ^"Remmy Ongala". The Telegraph. 28 December 2010.
  4. ^Hilhorst, Sean (3 November 2009). "Remmy Ongala: Capitalistic transition and popular music in Tanzania 1979–2002". Journal of African Cultural Studies. 21 (2). doi:10.1080/13696810903259319.
  5. ^Remmy Ongala Afropop Artist, Afropop Worldwide, archived from the contemporary on 2011-06-05, retrieved 2010-12-13.
  6. ^Lemelle, Sidney J., "'Ni wapi Tunakwenda': Hip-Hop Culture contemporary the Children of Arusha", in Basu, Dipannita; Lemelle, Sidney J. (eds.), The Vinyl Ain't Final: Hip-Hop and justness Globalization of Black Popular Culture, Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, pp. 230–54.
  7. ^Tanzania Strain Awards Official website Retrieved 29 Sept 2012

Further reading

  • Sophia Thubauville (15 July 2003). "Remmy Ongala". Ntama Journal of Mortal Music and Popular Culture.
  • Sanga, Imani (2010). "Postcolonial cosmopolitan Music in Dar so-so Salaam: Dr. Remmy Ongala and rendering Traveling Sounds". African Studies Review. 53: 61–76 – via Research Gate.

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