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Yugen Blakrok
Yugen Blakrok is a South African rapper. She is best known for her performance on the track "Opps" with Vince Staples from the Kendrick Lamar-produced soundtrack to the movie ''Black Panther''. Biography Originally from Queenstown, Blakrok started emceeing in Yeoville, Johannesburg in 2007 with the Recess Poetry crew. In 2009 she joined producer Kanif the Jhatmaster's label Iapetus Records, and released her debut album ''Return of the Astro-Goth'' in 2013. The strength of her debut would earn her three nominations at the 2014 South African Hip Hop Awards and her first international tours. With newfound recognition she was invited to contribute to the Black Panther soundtrack and the soundtrack to the video game Cyberpunk 2077. Her second album, ''Anima Mysterium'' was released in 2019 and features collaborations with fellow South African musicians as well as Kool Keith; she performed the track "Morbid Abakus" from the album on COLORS. Her musical and cultural influences are ec ...
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Queenstown, South Africa
Queenstown, officially Komani, is a town in the middle of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, roughly halfway between the smaller towns of Cathcart, Eastern Cape, Cathcart and Sterkstroom on the N6 (South Africa), N6 national route. The town was established in 1853 and is currently the commercial, administrative, and educational centre of the surrounding farming Chris Hani District Municipality, district. History Queenstown was founded in early 1853 under the direction of Sir George Cathcart, who named the settlement, and then fort, after Queen Victoria. Work on its railway connection to East London, Eastern Cape, East London on the coast was begun by the Cape Colony, Cape government of John Molteno in 1876, and the line was officially opened on 19 May 1880. The town war memorial was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer in 1922 with its sculpture by Alice Meredith Williams. The town prospered from its founding up to the worldwide depression of the 1930s, and again thereafter ...
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ColorsxStudios
ColorsxStudios GmbH (formerly Colors Media UG), commonly known as Colors (stylized in all caps), is a German music performance platform that aims at introducing and showcasing emerging artist talent in the form of videos with minimalist aesthetics. Since its inception in February 2016, their eponymous YouTube channel has amassed over seven million subscribers and almost three billion cumulative views. The recognizable peculiarity of their videos is that each band or artist is filmed alone on stage with a neutral background of a particular color. Having hosted artists such as Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Jorja Smith, Takeoff, Daniel Caesar, Elmiene, Kali Uchis, Mahalia, Angèle and Mac DeMarco, ColorsxStudios is credited with somewhat helping upstage and promote new artists in the music, traditional media and fashion industries. It is also commonly acknowledged alongside Tiny Desk Concerts, Sofar Sounds, Live Lounge and Mahogany Sessions as one of the biggest live music ...
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English-language Singers From South Africa
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a English as a lingua franca, global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles (tribe), Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, migrated to Britain after its End of Roman rule in Britain, Roman occupiers left. English is the list of languages by total number of speakers, most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the list of languages by number of native speakers, third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish language, Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in list of countries and territories where English ...
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South African Women Rappers
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', ), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the Levant The Levant ( ) is the subregion that borders the Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Med ...
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Wax Tailor
Jean-Christophe Le Saoût (; born on 19 July 1975), better known by the stage name Wax Tailor, is a French record producer, DJ, and talent manager. He has released six studio albums collaborating with other artists. Early career After being a host on French radio in the Paris suburb of Mantes-La-Jolie, Le Saoût started the French rap group ''La Formule'' in the 1990s. He created his label Lab'Oratoire in 1998. He began working on the Wax Tailor project in 2001, first appearing on a remix of Looptroop and La Formule's "Deep Under Water". Releases In 2004, JC Le Saoût launched the Wax Tailor concept with an EP, "Lost the Way", that gained the attention of DJ's and music critics in his home country. In 2005, Wax Tailor released his debut album, '' Tales of the Forgotten Melodies''. In addition to sampling Nina Simone, Doris Day and Alfred Hitchcock films, the album also featured collaborations with The Others and Charlotte Savary. In 2007, Wax Tailor released his second al ...
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Keleketla!
''Keleketla!'' is the self-titled studio album by British/South African musical project brought together by Johannesburg's Keleketla! Library founders Rangoato Hlasane and Malose Malahlela and English electronic music duo Coldcut. The album's title means "response" in the Sepedi language. It was released on 3 July 2020 via Ahead Of Our Time. Recording sessions took place at Trackside Creative Studios in Soweto, at Denmark Street Studios and at Assault and Battery Studios in London. Critical reception ''Keleketla!'' was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional critics, the album received an average score of 81, based on nine reviews. The aggregator AnyDecentMusic? has the critical consensus of the album at a 7.7 out of 10. Adriane Pontecorvo of ''PopMatters'' praised the album saying, "Consistently exciting, always surprising, and full of soul, it is undoubtedly one of the most remarkable releas ...
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Epic Beard Men
Epic Beard Men is an American hip hop duo from Providence, Rhode Island. It consists of Sage Francis and B. Dolan. Career Having toured and worked with each other, Sage Francis and B. Dolan wanted to put aside time to create music together. However, the two couldn't find time in their schedules until they were invited to perform at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. There, they started writing their new collaborative songs. Epic Beard Men's official debut single, "War on Christmas", was released in 2017. In 2018, the duo released the ''Season 1'' EP, as well as "Five Hearts", a single from the EP. In 2019, the duo released the first studio album, ''This Was Supposed to Be Fun''. It includes "You Can't Tell Me Shit", which became '' The Stranger''s "Inbox Jukebox Track of the Day". The album was placed at number 20 on ''PopMatters'' "20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2019" list. Discography Studio albums * ''This Was Supposed to Be Fun'' (2019) EPs * ''Season 1'' (2018) Singles * ...
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The Album
The Album may refer to: * '' ABBA: The Album'', released in 1977 * ''The Album'' (Caravan album), 1980 * ''The Album'' (Mantronix album), 1985 * ''The Album'' (Cliff Richard album), 1993 * ''The Album'' (Haddaway album), 1993 * ''The Album'' (Hello Sailor album), 1994 * ''The Album'' (Latyrx album), 1997 * ''The Album'' (Shane Richie album), 1997 * ''The Album'' (The Firm album), 1997 * '' Terror Squad: The Album'', 1999 * ''The Album'' (Dj Shah album), 2000 * ''The Album'' (Lil Rob album), 2003 * '' Federation: The Album'', 2004 * ''The Album'' (Jeckyll & Hyde album), 2007 * ''The Album'' (Daniel Schuhmacher album), 2009 * ''The Album'' (Achozen album), 2010 * ''The Album'' (Aunty Donna album), 2018 * ''The Album'' (Teyana Taylor album), 2020 * ''The Album'' (Blackpink album), 2020 * ''The Album'' (Chase Rice album), 2021 * ''The Album'' (Jonas Brothers album), 2023 * ''The Album'', a 1993 album by Masters at Work * ''The Album'', a 1933 novel by Mary Roberts Rineh ...
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Red Bull Music Academy
The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH. The main five-week event is held in a different city each year. The public portion of its program is a festival of concerts, art installations, club nights and lectures by influential figures in contemporary music. The other part of the program is by invitation only and is held in a building that has been custom-fitted with a large recording studio, a lecture hall, a radio booth and 8–12 bedroom-sized studios. There, 60 up-and-coming producers, singers, sound artists, DJs and musicians from around the world learn from and collaborate with top industry professionals. The Red Bull Music Academy maintains an online magazine and lecture video archive year-round. The Academy hosts additional music workshops and club nights and curates stages at festivals in around 60 countries worldwide. In 2019, it was announced that both the Red Bull Music Academy ...
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Carl Jung
Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. A prolific author of Carl Jung publications, over 20 books, illustrator, and correspondent, Jung was a complex and convoluted academic, best known for his concept of Jungian archetypes, archetypes. Alongside contemporaries Sigmund Freud, Freud and Alfred Adler, Adler, Jung became one of the most influential psychologists of the early 20th century and has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. He worked as a research scientist at the Burghölzli psychiatric hospital in Zurich, under Eugen Bleuler. Jung established himself as an influential mind, developing a friendship with Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, conducting a The Freud/Jung Letters, leng ...
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Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa
Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa (21 July 1921 – 25 March 2020) was a Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) from South Africa. He was known as an author of books that draw upon African mythology, traditional Zulu folklore, extraterrestrial encounters and his own personal encounters. His last work was a graphic novel called the ''Tree of Life Trilogy'' based on his writings of his most famous book, ''Indaba my Children''. In 2018 he was honoured with an USIBA award presented by the South African Department of Arts and Culture, for his work in indigenous wisdom. Credo was a ''sanusi'' (common spelling ''isanuse'') which is a type of Zulu diviner or sangoma. The term stems from a more historic time and is not widely used today, even in a traditional setting. Credo lived with his wife Virginia in Kuruman, Northern Cape, where they ran a hospice clinic. Early life His father was a widower with three surviving children when he met his mother. His father was a builder and a Christian and h ...
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