African China

The Evolution of African China Far from being the obvious, since launching himself into the mainstream music world about two years ago, Chinagoro, a.k.a African China, may have stood out as a dependable, yet emerging social crusader of great reckoning. With his name almost becoming a house-hold name in many homes across Africa, African China parades a talent, very prodigious and could be described as "rare and different from what Ojo would refer to above as 'playing the music of destructive values." While storming the music scene with an uncommon tempo, Chinagoro recreates with his craft, the images of reggae singers of yesteryears. With the unceremonious exit of the likes of Majek Fashek, Ras Kimono and The Mandators, all Nigeria's past leading reggae singers, Chinagoro's entrance into the music wavelength of Nigeria appear something like rekindling and re-modelling of the undying spirit of fighting for the oppressed masses through the art of music. His emergence in the Nigerian music scene, no doubt, revolutionizes the myopic, almost streamlined music culture in the country. He came with a bang, and consequently took the stage with a thundering storm. Listening to his kind of music invokes feelings of redemption.One cannot but acknowledge African China's redemptive philosophy which reunites his fans with the rhythms that defined the music of the departed reggae legend, Bob Marley. His high sense of creativity and accomplishment of high quality entertainment and philosophical undertone combined with liberating enlightenment, makes him the hope of tomorrow's reggae icon in the world of the Black race. More than ever before, Chinagoro's kind of reggae possesses an unusual driving force which comforts, arrests and at the same time, refreshes the soul while it encourages and re-arms the people for the great task of making a better society. Like the thought-provoking messages of the departed reggae legend, Bob Marley, and of recent, the South African reggae maestro, Lucky Dube, Chinagoro demonstrates lots of promises for his generation.

Channel: Music
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: indigenousblue

Length: 08:08
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