![]() Yellow Fever, General Health Advice and Vaccinations for Tanzania. ![]() check it out!)Ĭan you tell this was a labor of love?! I'm hoping you'll find things here that make you want to explore more into traditional African music. No safari slide show is complete without ululation! (If you don't know what that means, you haven't partied with East Africans. The Great Migration (moody, in the rain) with a Dar church choir doing Baba Yetu - the Our Father in Kiswahili. and if you click on the description of the numbered segment there is often a reference to the music chosen. I also brokeit down into more reasonable pieces. There are "credits" during the show to indicate the music used in each segment. There is a single one-hour episode with all the safari video and some stills and the whole soundtrack. If you'd like to hear some of the music we selected, you can go to our "You Tube Channel" at you put in the URL of the youtube clip and it rips the soundtrack for you to an mp3. there is a piece of software called Free You Tube Downloader that is so simple. and then the Jambo Bwana version we chose. raw, almost frightening.Įpisode 3 returns to Kidjo doing 'Batonga' - awesome song!. and then it ends with the Masai singing and dancing by our campfire at Whistling Thorn. Malaika with Belafonte and Makeba, then Kidjo doing 'Afrika' The contrast is amazing. and then check out Angelique Kijo, the reigning diva of African music. If you want to start "mining" African music, start with Makeba. made famous by a duet with Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba (Mama Africa). I know Jambo Bwana came from Kenya, I got the Kenyan Boys Choir version.īy far, the most famous Swahili song in the international arena is Malaika. its about the lion CRYING in the night and all of us knowing exactly who is the real boss in that jungle! It's the theme song for episode 6 of the Idiots Abroad - Tanzania try not to feel this one deep in your sould! After all - its not really about the lion sleeping in the night. not really a folks song, but a popular song out of South Africa from the 1920s with a long heritage before a sanitized version became popular during my childhood in America. The Lion Sleeps Tonight is an interesting song. I did use Lion King - but I used the Broadway opening that really does try to be responsive to where it comes from. but it doesn't really have any authenticity. especially the version done by the large Dutch choir. ![]() I've been moved by the Toto song, for example. But having seen a lot of other folks slide shows, I realized all those songs are frequently used.Īnd some of them have no real connection to Africa. ![]() Rgdavis - I think I started with a list pretty much identical to yours. but I do think the soundtrack is an experience in itself. I don't mean to brag - I didn't make any of this music. I did, indeed, spend quite a bit of time trying to find "the right" music for our videos. Today, “Jambo Bwana” is a song you will hear in hotels around Kenya and Tanzania, with “Kenya” often being substituted by the name of the country you are in.Thanks for remembering, QM. It became widely popular in Kenya and Tanzania, reaching platinum status in just five years. The song was such a huge success that the band had to play it 20 times per night, until eventually they were offered the opportunity to record it. Teddy explained the story in an interview with the BBC. That gave him the idea to write a song with simple phrases in Swahili, which would help visitors learn the language while dancing to the band’s music. One night, while taking a break between two songs, he heard tourists trying to speak Swahili and practicing words like Jambo (“Hi”), Habari gani (“How are you?”), and Hakuna matata (“No problems”). At the time, the band was playing covers of European hits to entertain the tourists vacationing on the Kenyan coastline. The song was created in 1979 when the band leader, Teddy Harrison, was performing in a hotel in Mombasa. Song covers: The song has been covered by numerous local and international artists, including German pop band Boney-M. Title translation: Jambo Bwana (“Hello, Mister”) Singer: Them Mushrooms, a band from Kenya Year released: 1982 (but it was written two years earlier) If you have traveled to East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar), there’s a good chance you’ve heard the catchy Jambo song, and an even greater possibility that you know the lyrics by heart… But do you know when and where it was created and what inspired the lyrics? Read on for the full story. The challenge: learn the lovely story behind the song you hear everywhere in East Africa – “Jambo Bwana”
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