I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
As I got more involved in music, one of the things that made me excited, from the time I was a child, was that clear link between our ancestors and the sounds we hear today.
I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
I was raised around music.
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
I was reared on folk music.
Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.
I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child.