Angelique Kidjo: Africa’s Premier Diva
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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Is the English Language a Harder Language to Be Rhythmic?
When you were listening to western albums when you were a kid, cause you always had music in the house. You really liked curtis mayfield, i think. And for me, as an african young little girl, like, it's not only the rhythm that attract me to him. Iis how he plays his voice. He the english language rhythmic. Is english a harder languae to be rhythmic? And no, it's easy. It's easier than in french. French is more, much more complicated. How do they compare in terms of singing in those languages? It is different. For i, samp if wen o say good morning in eurobes.
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