• View all from Teddy Afro
  Album Bob Marley
  Artistes Teddy Afro
  Language Amharic
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIvNNgtDpYY
  Writer Tewodros Kasahun

Africa meet China.
African music meet Chinese. :-D

A couple of years ago, a friend showed me a video of a Chinese man singing Makossa songs. Zhen Ping Liu, popularly known as Liu de Karmer to his fans was the first ever and lone Chinese Makossa singer.
The name of the song is Assiko chinois, pretty good :-). Some friends joked that he probably wasn't him singing the song and someone else was doing voice over, but who really does that these days?

Watch the video below

Stephan Hamidou Doukouré, aka Douk Saga, was a musician from the Ivory Coast.
Part of the group, La Jet Set, he is known to be the creator of the music genre that has taken Africa and the rest of the world by storm, called Coupé-Décalé and is affectionately called the President.

Coupe Decale means 'cut and shift'. It is a unique style using African percussions, deep bass among others. It expressed the pulse of the Ivorian society while giving an insight into the political situation of the country.

Here are a couple of his music videos ...

• View all from Double Dee
  Album Ghana mbaa
  Artistes Double Dee, Flex
  Language Twi, English
  Video URL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwYN-qEDTrE
  Writer Dennis Asante, Daniel Wiredu

• View all from Reggie Rockstone
  Album Last show
  Artistes Reggie Rockstone
  Language Twi
  Runtime 4:11
  Writer Reggie Osei
  Year 2004