MEXICAN DUBWISER - TROUBLE IN MY SOUL (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

FEMI KUTI - NO PLACE FOR MY DREAM (NIGERIA 2013)

Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962), popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Femi was born in London to Fela and Remi Kuti and grew up in the former Nigerian capital, Lagos. His mother soon left his father, taking Femi to live with her. In 1977, however, Femi chose to move in with his father. Femi eventually became a member of his father's band. Like his father, Femi has shown a strong commitment to social and political causes throughout his career. He created his own band Positive Force in the late 1980s with Dele Sosimi (Gbedu Resurrection), former key-board player of Fela Anikulapo Kuti. His international career began in 1988 when he was invited by the French Cultural Centre in Lagos and Christian Mousset to perform at the Festival d'Angoulême (France), the New Morning Club in Paris and the Moers Festival in Germany. In 2001, Femi collaborated on his album Fight to Win with a number of U.S. musicians, including Common, Mos Def, and Jaguar Wright. In 2002, Femi's mother, who had played an influential role in Femi's life, died at the age of 60. Femi's son currently appears as part of his act, playing alto saxophone. Also in 2002, Femi contributed a remake of his father's classic song, "Water No Get Enemy", to Red Hot & Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to Fela Kuti that was released by the Red Hot Organization and MCA. His track was created in collaboration with hip hop and R&B artists, D'Angelo, Macy Gray, The Soultronics, Nile Rodgers, and Roy Hargrove, and all proceeds from the CD were donated to charities dedicated to raising AIDS awareness or fighting the disease. Femi Kuti's voice is featured in the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV, where he is the host of radio station IF 99 (International Funk 99, described as "playing a great selection of classics from West Africa, the US and elsewhere"). In similar fashion as his father, there have been complaints of Kuti's criticism of his homeland Nigeria, specifically in the song "Sorry Sorry". Femi has been nominated for a Grammy award three times in the world music category in 2003, 2010 and 2012 but has never won

Richie Havens dies aged 72: Woodstock Festival folk singer has heart attack

Born on January 21, 1941, in Brooklyn, New York, American folk singer Richie Havens is indelibly linked to the Woodstock generation. After starting out performing in neighborhood doo-wop and gospel groups, Havens moved to Greenwich Village, where he picked up the guitar and started performing in coffee houses. After releasing several studio albums, Havens opened the 1969 Woodstock Festival. He died on April 22, 2013, at the age of 72.

Ismael Miranda - Me Voy Ahora (Joaquin Joe Claussell Remix)

PERU Eva Ayllon - Me voy ahora

Bibi Tanga & The Selenites - My heart is jumping

France Zaz - Historia De Un Amor (Live)

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Parov Stelar Trio - The Invisible Girl (2013) (All Night Live KOKO London)

Cesaria Evora - Mae Carinhosa (2013)

Cesaria Evora was one of the most unlikely of unlikely success stories that music has ever seen. Evora,  a.k.a. the “barefoot diva” (she really did perform shoeless on the world’s most famous stages), grew up poor. For much of her childhood, spent in Sao Vicente, one of the Cape Verdean islands (some 570 kilometres off the west coast of Africa), she lived in an orphanage.

Her singing career began in local bars, where the teenage Evora sang for sailors. Eventually, she made her way to Lisbon where she was “discovered,” and thence to Paris, where she quickly became the talk of the town. Ultimately, Evora became the talk of the world, touring and recording and selling more than six million albums. With each recording she also recorded extra tracks — tracks that were not released. And that’s where the previously unreleased music on this new, posthumous release, Mãe Carinhosa, comes from.

Evora died in December 2011. You couldn’t say her death was a surprise. The 70-year-old singer’s life had included plenty of bars and cigarettes and all that goes along with them. She’d had at least two strokes and a heart attack. But still, it was a huge loss.

Read on to find out more about the music of Mãe Carinhosa. It comes out on March 12, 2013, and CBC Music is honoured to have the exclusive North American stream until that time.