Alpha Blondy was a musician well before he discovered reggae. In high school in Dimbokoro, Ivory Coast, known then as Sedou Kone, he played with the Atomic Vibrations, a high school band that played ...

Seydou Koné (born January 1, 1953 in Dimbokro), better known by his stage name Alpha Blondy, is an Ivorian reggae singer and international recording artist. Many of his songs are politically and ...

Reviews of recent CDs from foreign countries. (And if you say, hey, New Orleans isn’t a foreign country, well, you could use a trip to New Orleans.)Alpha Blondy, “Merci”(Shanachie)Ivory Coast singer ...

Drawing on a Dunhill and sipping port, a foreign ambassador sits in an alcove of a Paris hotel bar, pondering the latest Middle East peace talks. But this roving diplomat dresses like a Rastafarian, ...

In 1977, Seydou Kone was studying English at Columbia University and working four jobs. He was 5,000 miles from his home in West Africa, but Kone was ecstatic to be in a country that spawned Woodstock ...

“Bonjour maman” were the first words that Ivorian reggae star Alpha Blondy said Sunday when he arrived in Israel and entered the VIP reception room at Ben-Gurion Airport. Blondy, a social activist ...

“4:45 PM: Perry’s band is ok. A couple of times they do a little dub, some swirling, echoey organ, some piano but mostly it’s just one long vamp after another. From down the hill, most of Perry’s ...

Alpha Blondy is truly a worldwide artist. Born in Africa’s Ivory Coast, the 60-year-old musician has pumped out more than 20 energetic albums. His most recent, “Mystic Power,” released earlier this ...

Fans of the Ivorian Reggae legend Alpha Blondy will have to wait till this September to see him perform live in Nairobi after the aborted show last Saturday night. Speaking to The Pulse Magazine on ...

Singer Alpha Blondy was in Israel this week for the Zion Reggae Festival. Arutz Sheva met Blondy in Tel Aviv where talked about his deep connection with the land. "My family and I, we are so excited ...

Rated by reggae fans as Africa’s best reggae export anywhere, Alpha Blondy will be one of the headline acts, alongside Guinean Kora player Mory Kante, at the first ever Africa Music Festival event to ...

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