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yet also no longer wants to answer questions about what makes her african and what makes her german she wants her music to speak for itself. licitra was already a successful young singer when she fled her home in africa but it was in france that she rose to the ranks of a legend. maker was 18 when she left nigeria and wound up in a german often it's for young adults today she's an internationally acclaimed musician. it's really men who hit their musical stride by navigating different cultures. your closest father is canadian her mother german moving from africa to hamburg at the age of 12 was a shock she experienced racism and suffered exclusion since the day music critics often compare her to the greats of soul and the blues.

but. back to the live usage. of the. actually kedron has been a leading light in the music industry for decades there she's won 3 grammys and the world music category she rejects that label as too restrictive. the role models range from the south african singer mary emma keva to jimi hendrix was. feels most at home here in the nigerian capital lagos even though she lived in hamburg for years. it's a great determination to forge

a path towards making the music. elements of hip hop soul african music under a strong helping of reggae. was a magical chill and until a key jewel latest music straddles the continents but none of the singers are committed to a single musical style of cash agree and each has developed her own unique sound there they've built international audiences by working in europe over 3 regularly returned to africa this film explores how they transnational experiences have shaped their music.

what kind of music do you make when you grow up in gonna be nino nigeria and then spend a large part of your life in europe. now. the 3 process their experiences of rootlessness and of leaving their childhood homes. and how did going back influenced their creative output. make us father is nigerian her mother german and she grew up in nigeria in africa she was teased for her lighter skin once she moved to germany she was confronted with racial slur. in nigeria she sang at school and in the church choir there were no other opportunities to make music.

or why in nigeria i was too noisy to think. there was one even before you live in the noise in the family. see. it's like i wanted to be but there's. engaging in that is like yeah i know this is. not happening witchcraft as we're you know you must be here we've got to think so we want to. remove it from you know who. you. know. but today she's making music after all. our. neighbor is the youngest of 4 siblings

had german mother left the family when neko was 2 years old and returned to hamburg alone. it was 982 and the start of a traumatic phase in acres life. with children suffered years of abuse at the hands of their stepmother. but never does and speak about her past from early on she saw to focus on her goals and the positive things in her life finding comfort in a christian faith and its music. it provides an outlet for his experiences and her spirituality. and. when she was 18 nicole and her brother left their father's home and sought shelter with their biological mother in germany but she had no room for them. they turned to the city for help.

hamburg was the city way. you could get some really good social help. so yeah when the river missions us it's the foyer biggest asset is the people that actually. took me and so that's hamburg and then after that obviously i got i kind of got transferred to. ca told issues haim. the nuns there took care of me for a couple of years and that's my relationship to hamburg mainly obviously because the i feel like they embraced me and they were people who were very nice to me when i 1st came here who were willing to yet to show me a path and give me opportunities. which i might have not had when

allison thank you. nic i learned german fast she got a high school diploma within 18 months and graduated from university with a degree in ethnology anthropology and african studies though she had to work all jobs to finance a study is she still found time to sing and play guitar. she was introduced to hip hop by german produce a d.j. for hot the pair continue to collaborate in the studio to this day. she left hamburg more than 15 years ago but she occasionally comes back to visit and to work her management agency is based here. and of course she performs here too like at the big jazz festival in hamburg stockman's. how different her life is today it's love but everything she's been through resurfaces time and again in a music and lyrics. make me they. throw

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down. nikka found her way managing to put in a difficult past behind her now she wants to give something back many of her lyrics are political taking aim at injustice environmental destruction and finance. she uses her international naturally as he to promote humanitarian projects lending her voice to those who would otherwise go on her. voice to condemn the nigerian terrorist group boko haram and back all the nice ations that helped former child soldiers and advance women's rights. the be.

given. the chance to. live. live. live. live. my. friends is a common destination for refugees and migrants from former french colonies in africa. and chile kidjo arrived in paris after fleeing the names communist

dictatorship more than 35 years ago. today she can't walk down the street without being recognized. to. and she's much in demand as an interview guest she's been invited to do you know but today to talk about her autobiography. better have a good. look at what made. only. with her animated nature she brings the studio to life singing chatting and spreading an infectious good mood. in the interview she recounts how she left her hometown of course to new and been in and came to paris without any money or a job. her parents who stayed behind in africa feared for their young daughters welfare and the big city where one could quickly hit the skids in her autobiography entitled spirit rising my life my music she describes this time

of her life. and imagine. like nikka she to manage to keep her head above the water by working odd jobs. as long as i could pay my rent and have enough to eat well to be honest i didn't eat enough which wasn't so bad my passion for music supported me i knew if i worked hard and kept on at my music then i would get there eventually. my music she having fun it's evident that angelica's life and music are defined by her thirst for freedom her embrace of different cultures a self-confident joy and experimentation and a commitment to stand up for others traits she says she owes to his liberal minded and culturally astute parents are the mark of. it all began in kota new where i grew up i dedicated the book to my father he always brought music and books home

and encouraged us to play sports these pleasures always had an educational value my dad was keen to couple learning with fun. i wrote the book mainly to refute prejudices about africa. that despite all the misery there is joy there too it's not like everyone in africa is suffering. freedom of speech was part of the way of life in my family home. everyone had the right to speak freely our father and mother were ahead of their time. but i don't want anyone to write that about me later i want to tell my own story now to tell the truth about what i am and what is going on in africa today along is happening in africa right now a lot of rapid changes people think this continent will never amount to anything but it's moving ahead. he said i think.

there's still time for a quick photo shoot at the radio station angelica he chose day is full of appointments and everything is tightly timed after all she is not in paris as much as she used to be and she's got a lot to do when she is. there. she still feels at home here in france the former colonial ruler of her homeland binning. clearly french culture has inspired and influenced her but it's safe to say that she's mastered the art of assimilating other cultures and creating something uniquely her. was. for instance by drawing an unexpected verb from piaf swilled wearisome songs.

even the rehearsal as a joy not least because she's being accompanied by the playwright director actor and festival director olivier peak. was. coming saturday to. come. come. come come come. kids are loves the dynamic culture of paris home tonight ray of good recording studios in times in shops and

a large african community. she lives with her husband and manager the basis jo in play in a small house on the outskirts of town when she's not in new york anymore oh somewhere else that has. a leak doesn't put on any airs and graces she cooks herself and likes to show off her cousin mary talents. yes i'm making chicken and shrimps. but some time i. i mix everything together whether it's food or music i mix it all up tied been a nice french whatever i feel like as a child in between under leak was exposed to music from all over the world his father owned an extensive record collection and played the banjo the mother ran

a theater play the clarinet and selling. but after a regime change everything was different. the communist banned all music even on the radio which had played everything until then all sorts of music all a sudden boom you got up in the morning and heard get ready for the revolution the fight goes on and you heard the same when you went to bed too it went on all day always the same old news from the same regime but there was no news from the rest of the world. it was dangerous to listen to the french radio station and if he or other foreign broadcasts if a neighbor heard you you could be denounced as a traitor it was a far cry from freedom. but only because the unfit. to . lead had become

a star in between the country's marxist regime expected her to sing propaganda songs and was displeased when she refused. she was afraid she'd end up in prison. in 1982 she fled to paris on a small plane. gosh. when i arrived in france i caught up with all the music i missed out on. french music in english american even classical music. the 1st thing i did was literally bay the music. i listen to anything i had heard before and i'm still discovering new things today i was always curious about what people here were doing. before. function excess paris broadened her musical horizons it was here that she studied singing as well as law for a while and then developed a profile as

a human rights activist. after launching her career with african songs and performances that she developed from traditional dances she came to work with such big music industry names as peter gabriel conason tana joss stone and alicia keys. on her travels and on tour she discovered influences of african music all over the world. whenever i was in the u.s. or brazil where ever i was i always discovered something of my continent the club the rhythm that came with the slaves. to. work with. all these rhythms are based on the weather to quarter for quarter or 6 quarter time. when i'm making music i never get out of time if i listen to the club then i know exactly where i am. most of.

the music of africa has had a profound influence on the world music and there are a few genres where its presence is as strongly felt as in latin american music. and blending it into and music came naturally to under a leaky jewel who is fluent in spanish. pct.

because german grandfather worked on ships and hamburg through its port the city has always been a gateway to the world. there was sometimes still feels alien and unwelcome it's different when she gets to work here she's surrounded by musicians and dancers from all over the world people of all different skin colors and all regions. she spent the 1st 2 years of her life in ghana and other african countries with her mother a german development aid worker and her canadian father a musician she was 12 when the family moved to hamburg it was hard to adjust to

a new culture a new mindset and who had german school where she was the only people with dark skin. a 7 2nd hits t.c.k. so i describe myself as a t.c.k. 3rd culture kid. my mother's from hamburg where we're shooting right now. and my father's from ghana as he was born and raised in eastern gonna so i have an entirely different culture namely in the 3rd culture and that's exactly how i see music music is the personal 3rd culture it's everything that is inside you the output is indefinable for me output is always indefinable. i like artists who work like that i draw inspiration from very different things. it's a bunch of perc sample i recorded my nephew's heartbeat away i'll show you.

i mix that with this. it does and it's a backyard in senegal indycar and this was the result. of. the sounds of africa a continuous source of inspiration for you caught on. the continent is abuzz with music it's not a cliché but reality as we discover in the ghanaian capital accra.

in the district of jamestown a different tune reverberates from every street side stall. we hear afropop and afro beat as well as contemporary hits created on computers just like songs anywhere else in the world and yet there's something quintessentially african about them. oh. africa doesn't just inspired through its music this is an artist and scores where yasser likes to buy fabrics she finds ideas for his stage shows and music video costumes here. the other.

today she's looking for fabric for a headscarf. consider this my fabric. my niece was nice like you but. it's been 3 yards what can we do 3 she has never turned her back on africa she still feels at home his she says and is more relaxed here than in europe in ghana she tells us she never feels misunderstood never out of place or stared at and if it just because of her origin this also is where she reconnects to her musical roots the music she heard in a child it all of our highs i was growing up here you are continuously exposed to music. and of course the biggest musical influence was my father who was a high life musician. as he had

a rehearsal room in our house and rehearsals were always on saturdays at 4 o'clock . feel. my my father taught me how to play the jam by a little our traditional drum and my mother introduced me to piano. i had piano lessons but it was all very classical i had a very strict piano teacher here in akra. i actually only played mozart and the like with him which i hated. so when i got home i mostly did my own songs with a few notes or chords that i already knew. but i know. today you could his music is rooted somewhere between africa and europe like millions of people today she's at once adrift and at home in several places at the

same time. her world view is all encompassing taking in different languages and cultures but her lifestyle is also complicated. recordings for a video clip with abandon across. your. freedom is within you is the message of his song diamonds the diamonds of life are you'll say the lyrics it's you and nobody else who can crack your code to freedom.

corps band is european and they rehearse regularly in paris but the musical lunatics is a group here in accra a bridge to africa that helps her to stay in touch with her going to roots. they're currently working on a musical it's a big project that will still take time and work to put together. but now they're rehearsing the song teacher. she says generation the kids they write this stuff. they came to a. precarious .

concert as a musical comedian who effortlessly transforms have voice from valve a t. soft high and fragile to powerful soul touch.

closer write songs about people why they come why they go why they fall in love she has called his style soul seeking music. it's february and cold in paris. nikka arrived the previous day commuting between continents as part of the music business. all 3 sing its return to the french

capital frequently to record which also infuses their music with european influences. from nick has brought some recordings from lagos ideas for new songs to develop in the studio here. she meets up with musician plays and money and a producer she worked with both on her last album was. more thoughtful and she forgot. what he wanted to blaze records next has a voice on the computer playing the preprinted used backing tracks over headphones . you never were word for. word from. the. family lived down. because studio work and lyrics are strongly shaped by her life experiences and

spirituality. down the tracks step by step and dumps over onto her own original recording. did lay's get it down on his laptop. because happy i had already done some recordings at home on my computer. back with just with the guitar. and i can misty stood you to do something else but then we ended up recording it on now it's become song it's done within $24.00 all as. giving. back. to the dad was. a. bad. word for me.

and never would for me. back and. it started snowing. nichols freezing. escaping european winters was one of the motivating factors behind her decision to go back to nigeria. when you are listening to the music can you tell whether it was written and produced under the african sun or in snow

in paris. and does world travel and constant exposure to new influences really molded musical style. here we are very receptive beings i guess for i know as also as a musician. you hear something somewhere you might not be aware that you are taking that information in until maybe a year after. you know and then you hear it in your record saw yeah i would see differently traveling around not just staying in place but just traveling meeting all the musicians playing on different stages. call it shows even food can

influence your sound like that we all kind of the winds that i see specific types of food can influence how you because then that can also have an effect on how you cook for yourself and how you cook also shows how you make music so. the called to cold. inspires you a lot. as the snow is falling now i mean i don't listen to morty but this can't just inspire me to like i don't know like create something. that has reduced what the rhythm is maybe. dragged up pat. so it's not like. it's not it's not the rhythm that used to it will be like me. to. do. to you know but it's still there

so africa is in between i knew it was on the surface eat you can see that the. african rhythm the speech was strongly in all 3 women's music. and there's another thing that makes them stand out a voice a cadence that is clearly african in origin and very hard to copy.

wow. wow. wow wow. from africa via europe to new york. a few years ago until e.q. draw adopted the city as her 3rd home. today she's on her way to the united nations she's been a unicef goodwill ambassador since 2002. make up what you. aside

from her humanitarian work she also regularly hosts a current affairs program for the un website. first 1st century french episode 69 her music has always appealed for peaceful coexistence between races and the sexes. as a presenter she embodies a life lived between continents and cultures a citizen of the world in the truest sense. of evil in flight immediately back. and of age. once again his schedule is tight she squeezes in a small studio session with her band. a

song about people who exert control over a country's government. leak . the adventure of music began with personal of people and migration. 3 have made cross cultural innovation their guiding principle and the source of their inspiration. all the places i've been have shaped the person i am i travel because i have the health and strength to do so and counters with other cultures allow us to grow and

recognize the world and its globalism. you are stuck in your own blinkered world where everything is only black or white instead the world has all the colors of the rainbow. the fear of the foreign leads to the creation of isolated worlds and truths. but you can't just live for yourself. i always say hate and love aren't forces generated from outside and they come from within us. it's almost. and when not in a 100 years everyone will be t.c.k. . case meaning by cultural and multicultural and i think many people find it mentally strenuous because then you can no longer say what is what and who comes from where. so it's making older people a little nervous. and many people have put my music in a specific. genre they would see its afro pop some with see it's off to

contemporary afro beat some would see it's hip hop soul some would see it's conscious. i would say it's all of the. conscious. life electronic synthetic authentic. chemical. organic. it's a frequent flyer. and surely kids will. need and. 3 musicians at home between continents it's in a music that they have forged their identity music that knows no exclusion and

transcends boundaries. the most famous face in the world. queen elizabeth. her portrait has been painted countless times. is there anything else to add. and so facts takes up the challenge. and. it's fun to build.

in the art of climate change. the subject of so. much instant. one day years today how far future. g.w. dot com certainly go service for the making it. clear cut or. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language but the 1st word published in the. nico is in germany to learn german and why not come with him it's simple online on your mobile and free to sapps d w z e learning course nikos fake german made easy.

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