#Prince Nico Mbarga

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OLDIES SUNDAY: Conky - Sweet Mother (1978)

Today is for the Mom, Mama, Mommy, Ma, Grandma, Auntie, and Mother. It’s Mother’s Day on “Oldies Sunday“, and we send a shout out to them all. Today’s selection comes from the late Calypsonian, Mighty Conqueror a.k.a. Conky with the track, “Sweet Mother“. Arranged by Art De Couteau, “Sweet Mother” was released in 1978 through the Jumbo Caribbean Disco label. Conky’s track was a cover of…

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Cool Money - Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz International (Cool Money)

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prince nico mbarga & rocafil jazz -- peace movement social club of nigeria

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Hathor loves this song 😂😂😂💖

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Prince Nico Mbarga’s biggest hit outsold any of The Beatles’ (2017)

https://www.narratively.com/p/his-biggest-hit-sold-more-copies-than-any-of-the-beatles-so-why-havent-you-heard-of-him

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Prince Nico Mbarga Sweet Mother

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This was so cute! This is “Sweet Mother” by Prince Nico Mbarga, as I see it because of synesthesia, a condition that causes me to see music visually.

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“Stella” - Prince Nico Mbarga

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SEX EDUCATION Season 3's soundtrack is an eclectic mix, and here's every song featured on it!

Episode 1

- "I Think We're Alone Now" - The Rubinoos

- "Hound Dog" - Big Mana Thornton

- "Land of 1000 Dances" - Wilson Pickett

- Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" - C+C Music Factor ft. Freedom Williams

- "Hour of Deepest Need" - Ezra Furman

- "Oh Yeah" - Yello

- "Then She Kissed Me" - Hello

Episode 2

- "Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps" - Doris Day

- "Fantastic Man" - William Onyeabor

- "Piddily Patter Patter" - Nappy Brown

- "F**k the Pain Away" - Peaches

- "Dancing in Heaven (Orbital Be Bop)" - Q-Feel

- "Can I Sleep In Your Brain" - Ezra Furman

- "Save A Prayer" - Duran Duran

- "Sound of Da Police" - KRS-One

Episode 3

- "Rock Me Gently" - Andy Kim

- "Think About You" - Square A Saw

- "Macumba" - Titanic

- "Blank Generation

- "Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels: - Todrick Hall

- "The Man In Me" - Bob Dylan

- "Your Party" - Ween

- "Never My Love" - The Association

- "Frying Pan" - Ezra Furman

- "Tender" - Blur

Episode 4

- "Don’t Sweat The Technique" - Eric B And Rakim

- "So Much Love To Do" - Scout Niblet

- "Stormy Weather" - Etta James

- "Mysterious Power" - Ezra Furman and the Harpoons

- "Shake Body" - Skales

- "La Ballad des Gens Heureux" - Gerard Lenorman

Episode 5

- "Mon Amour Mon Ami" - Marie Laforet

- "Hot Topic" - Le Tigre

- "Zou Bisou Bisou" - Gillian Hills

- "Allez Donc Vous Faire Bronzer" - Sacha Distel

- "Pump Up The Jam" - Technotronic

- "I Wanna Love" - Scout Niblett

- "The Breeze/My Baby Cries" - Bill Callahan:

- "When I Live My Dream" - David Bowie

- "Your Young Voice" - King Creosote

Episode 6

- "Under Pressure" - Queen and David Bowie

- "Oyejo" - Fela Ransome Kuti & His Koola Lobito

- "Sweet Mother" - Prince Nico Mbarga

- "Short and Sweet" - Brittany Howard

- "Joro" - Wizkid

- "Attention" - Tiwa Savage

Episode 7

- "F**k The Pain Away" - Peaches

- "Hand Clapping Song" - The Meters

- "Oogum Boogum Song" - Brenton Wood

- "Going To Brighton" - Ezra Furman

- "Breathe Your Name" - Sixpence None The Richer

Episode 8

- "Summer Wine" - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood

- "Milkshake" - Kelis

- "I Get Along Very Well Without You" - Chet Baker

- "Save Me" - Aimee Mann

- "Moanin’" - Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

- "The Ballad of El Goodo" - Big Star

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The Lives of Samuel Fosso

SUMMARY

Theatrical gender bending in self portraiture

Suffered from paralysis as a child, his mother was too ashamed to take his picture when he was young, he was cured under his grandfather's care before the war broke out. He worked making women's shoes with his uncle. He spent time on the street with a photographer who taught him, for 5 months as an apprentice. His uncle helped him to find his own studio. 

Body movement as a part of health and physical wellbeing/ His self portraits are a way of seeing his own body, own illnesses and own recovery. His natural body. 

Fosso viewed his grandfather as a hero, he was a healer his whole life, his whole village considered him a hero for all those he has healed.

The 1970s motivation behind his self-portraits was that he started taking pictures of himself to make up for the absence of pictures from his childhood. Using the last frames on film rolls  and would take self portraits after closing his studio every day and send them to his grandmother in Nigeria.

Studio Photo Gentil was his first photography business in Central African Republic so he could visit his family

Inspiration for platform boots from Nigerian Musician and Prince Nico Mbarga’s record albums

Fosso focused on himself as the subject

Would finish off rolls of film used for clients by staging imaginative self portraits wearing sunglasses, bathing suits and fashions that challenged the conservativer sensibilities of the 70s era. 

Early experimental images remained privated until 1994, when he pushed his self-portraiture into new realms of gender bending theatricsc after he was invited to participate in the first edition of the Bamako Biennale when his work was discovered by french photographer Bernard Descamps. Whilst in Europe he met with other famous photographers who gave advice and encouraged him on his journey of artistic photography, framing his career today.

2017 solo expedition in London National portrait gallery

Nico Mbarga was his main inspiration behind his adventurous fashion, political denunciations made it difficult to be free and expressive, Fosso had his clothing made and bought shoes called Talon Dames that could not be found in Central Africa. The fear of being arrested was real as political consequences restricted his artistic photography

Commissioned by Tati the department store, for some of the most famous photographs of Fossos career. About Archetypes and characters ie. rock star, businessman, bourgeois women. The message Fosso wanted to deliver was about the discourse of segregation and salvery, the demand for independence and freedom. Paying homage to the heritage who fought for his and others freedoms as black people. 

For his series he thinks of his body as a human being always belonging to other subjects, to the person he is in the process of reproducing

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Another Woman's Husband - Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz International (Cool Money)

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prince nico mbarga & rocafil jazz -- oh! death

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Sweet Mother x Prince Nico Mbarga & Rocafil Jazz International

21/3/20 — Whitehall, PA

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(via His Biggest Hit Sold More Copies Than Any of the Beatles’. So Why Haven’t You Heard of Him? - Narratively - Pocket)

In a life bookended by tragedy, Prince Nico Mbarga poured joy into music, including the most popular song in African history. But his own story has never been told — until now.

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afrofoto day 6 | am I a "sweet mother"?

afrofoto day 6 | am I a “sweet mother”?

Today was a hard day. It really tested me not in the general general sense of testing, but in that LIFE revealing way. I will not get into details and save that for my memoir or maybe sometime way down the road when it’s actual comedy…one of those things people tell you many years after the phase that oh remember that time when such and such, now look at you. By the time the day ended early…