Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In Africa, music is for everything, Music was originally used for community. That was what music was for.
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to learn more about the various cultures in Africa. But that's the basis point of where all of the music that I love is based upon, from Africa to Cuba to Puerto Rico to South America.
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
The African people and tribal chiefs are hospitable, and African music and dances are invigorating.
I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it.
We need self-confidence in our ability to build Africa. I trust in Mali and I trust in music.
The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.
In Africa, listening is a guiding principle. It's a principle that's been lost in the constant chatter of the Western world, where no one seems to have the time or even the desire to listen to anyone else.
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