Youssou Ndour is a candidate for Museke.com's favourite African music legend poll. It's not the only award he's running for these days. A film has been made about him, titled 'I bring what I love'. It is written, directed and co-produced by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi. The movie chronicles events surrounding the release of Youssou's Egypt album, in which he tried to shed 'Islam' in a positive light. It was highly successful abroad but generated a lot of controversy in his home country of Senegal.

This is not the first time he has appeared in a movie or documentary. In 'Amazing Grace', as Olaudah Equiano, he acted as a central figure in the abolitionist movement in Great Britain and he was also on the movie's soundtrack. In 'Retour à Gorée', he played himself, journeying from the island of Gorée to the USA and back, exploring the origins of jazz, which go back to the era of slave trade in Africa, through a concert performed by an international group of artists. (Info from Wikipedia)

Watch the trailer for the movie and catch it if it's showing somewhere near you.

AFRO-DIASPORIC GROOVALICIOUS FUNKADOCIOUSNESS!!!
WE'RE BAAAACK!!

Wzup FAM! It's been awhile but we're back and in full effect! The summer has been a productive one - full of hot recording, new connexions, some backstage wheelin' n' dealin', and a few special surprises coming up in the next few weeks. In short, we cannot wait to unveil all the fiyah' fo' ya!

The first project we are launching this fall is the Take Back the Mic(TBTM) tour. In typical Soulfège style, we are using our music as a means to empower youth across the country, challenging a generation to "take back the mic" and speak for itself. Visit http://takebackthemic.com to learn more about the project and become a member of the TBTM movement.

ROCK YOUR WORLD WITH STAY OFF THE GRASS
TV YOUR MUM WILL HATE!

MTV base’s new show Stay Off the Grass is hard to define. Is it a mockumentary? Rockumentary? Stoner comedy? Improv drama? Surreal music-comedy-mockumentary hybrid? Naah…combine two meat-head South African rockers with surreal spaced-out comedy skits and the best alternative videos there are, and what have you got? Dunno really, but whatever it is, it makes you laugh. And it’s definitely a cult TV classic-in-the-making…

Stay Off the Grass chronicles the mundane lives of two anti-heroes from the West Rand. Welcome to the world of Kevin and Headrick - a pair of spaced-out music-loving drop-outs who lead tragically unfulfilled, uneventful lives, perpetually doomed to be unskilled, hopeless temps. Kevin and Headrick are job centre regulars – these guys just can’t keep a job down. Whatever they turn their hands to: they mess up. Whatever they try to achieve: fails. Talking, fighting, carrying a tray, caddying at the golf course, lusting after women or just stumbling painfully through an uncaring world: Headrick and Kevin can’t do a thing right.

Just one thing unite these two wannabe rockers: a deep abiding love of alternative music in all its forms – and the dream that they too, will one day make it big on the rock circuit.