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Ivorian reggae star Alpha Blondy is delighted to see Jamaican music inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List by UNESCO, noting that this musical style with lyrics often engaged was not a "fashion phenomenon"
"We are proud and happy Reggae lovers will not have to shave the walls!" People have understood that reggae is not a fashion phenomenon because injustice, poverty are not fashions, God is not fashion, misery, war, hope, hunger are not fashions, that's why reggae is still there and will always be there, "said AFP Alpha Blondy, 65, author including "Brigadier Sabari", "Black Samurai" or "Sweet Fanta Diallo".
"It's a great pride and at the same time a great humility to know that the work we do, that the messages we send are not falling on the ears of the deaf," continued the singer who emphasizes that the texts are as much in the spotlight as music.
"It's going together, the reggae's inspiration and all the musical inspirations are divine, but the reggaemen have put the commitment forward," said Alpha Blondy, who has just made a pilgrimage to Mecca and regularly quotes God.
He welcomes "that a structure such as UNESCO declares (heritage of humanity) this music of marginalized, marginalized, proscribed, left out, anti establishment!"
Reggae emerged in Jamaica in the late 1960s. A musical style from ska and rocksteady, he also incorporated influences from jazz and blues. Reggae is inseparable from Rastafarianism, a spiritual movement that sanctifies the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and promotes the use of ganja, or marijuana.
In addition, the Ivorian star highlights the contribution of all non-Jamaican artists, refusing to pull the cover to him: "Tiken Jah Fakoly, Ismael Isaac, Fadal Dey (Ivorian singers), UB40 and even Serge Gainsbourg.All are builders of the reggae thing … The crowns do not want it! "says Alpha Blondy whose latest album" Human race "includes a cover of" I came to tell you that I'm leaving "a song of the French artist.
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