Batuka (song), the Glossary

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1. 66 relations: Afrobeat, Attitude (magazine), Backing vocalist, Batuque (Cape Verde), Billboard (magazine), British Vogue, Call and response (music), Cape Verde, Cape Verdean Creole, Carlinhos Brown, Chicago Sun-Times, City Pages, Consequence (publication), Dark Ballet, Dino D'Santiago, Diplo, Donald Trump, El País, Emmanuel Adjei, Fado, Feminism, Financial Times, Gay Star News, Gay Times, Gwen Stefani, Hot Press, Interscope Records, Lisbon, Lucy O'Brien, M.I.A. (rapper), Madame X (album), Madame X Tour, Madame X: Music from the Theater Xperience, Madonna, Metro Weekly, Mirwais Ahmadzaï, MRC (company), Music journalism, MusicOMH, Nelly Furtado, New York (magazine), NPR, Paper (magazine), Público (Portugal), Piracy Funds Terrorism, Refinery29, Rolling Stone, Samba, San Francisco Examiner, Shots Podcast Network, ... Expand index (16 more) »

2. Madame X (Madonna)
3. Songs written by Mirwais Ahmadzaï

Afrobeat

Afrobeat (also known as Afrofunk) is a Nigerian music genre that involves the combination of West African musical styles from Ghana and Nigeria but mainly Nigeria, such as the traditional Yoruba and Igbo music and highlife, with American funk, jazz, and soul influences.

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Attitude (magazine)

Attitude is a British gay lifestyle magazine owned by Stream Publishing Limited.

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Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists.

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Batuque (Cape Verde)

The batuque is a music and dance genre from Cape Verde.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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British Vogue

British Vogue is a British fashion magazine based in London and first published in 1916.

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Call and response (music)

In music, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music.

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Cape Verde

Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, officially the Republic of Cabo Verde, is an archipelago and island country of West Africa in the central Atlantic Ocean, consisting of ten volcanic islands with a combined land area of about.

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Cape Verdean Creole

Cape Verdean Creole is a Portuguese-based creole language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde.

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Carlinhos Brown

Antônio Carlos Santos de Freitas, known professionally as Carlinhos Brown (Brazilian Portuguese: /kaʁˈlĩɲus bɾaw̃, -iɲuʃ/, 23 November 1962), is a Brazilian singer, percussionist, and record producer from Salvador, Bahia.

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Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily nonprofit newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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City Pages

City Pages was an alternative newspaper serving the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area.

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Consequence (publication)

Consequence (previously Consequence of Sound) is an independently owned New York–based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music, movies, and television.

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Dark Ballet

"Dark Ballet" is a song by American singer-songwriter Madonna from her fourteenth studio album Madame X (2019). Batuka (song) and Dark Ballet are Madonna songs, song recordings produced by Madonna, songs written by Madonna and songs written by Mirwais Ahmadzaï.

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Dino D'Santiago

Claudino Jesus Borges Pereira, better known by his stage name Dino D'Santiago (born 13 December 1982), is a Portuguese activist, composer, and musician of Cape Verdean descent.

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Diplo

Thomas Wesley Pentz (born November 10, 1978), known professionally as Diplo, is an American DJ and music producer.

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Donald Trump

Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

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El País

() is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain.

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Emmanuel Adjei

Emmanuel Kwasi Adjei is a Ghanaian-Dutch film director and visual artist.

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Fado

Fado ("destiny, fate") is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Lisbon, Portugal but probably has much earlier origins.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes.

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Financial Times

The Financial Times (FT) is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs.

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Gay Star News

Gay Star News (GSN) is a news website focused on events related to and concerning the global LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex) community.

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Gay Times

Gay Times (stylized in all caps), also known as GAY TIMES Magazine and as GT, is a UK-based LGBTQ+ media brand established in 1984.

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Gwen Stefani

Gwen Renée Stefani (born October 3, 1969) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Hot Press

Hot Press is a monthly music and politics magazine based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in June 1977.

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Interscope Records

Interscope Records is an American record label based in Santa Monica, California, owned by Universal Music Group through its Interscope Geffen A&M imprint.

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Lisbon

Lisbon (Lisboa) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131 as of 2023 within its administrative limits and 2,961,177 within the metropolis.

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Lucy O'Brien

Lucy O'Brien (born 13 September 1961)Author Biography, O'Brien, Lucy – She Bop: The definitive history of women in rock, pop, and soul, London: Penguin, 1995 is a British author and journalist whose work focuses on women in music.

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M.I.A. (rapper)

Mathangi "Maya" Arulpragasam (மாதங்கி 'மாயா' அருள்பிரகாசம்; born 18 July 1975), known by her stage name M.I.A. (எம்.ஐ.ஏ.; an initialism for both "Missing in Action" and "Missing in Acton"), is a British rapper, record producer, and singer.

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Madame X (album)

Madame X is the fourteenth studio album by American singer and songwriter Madonna. Batuka (song) and Madame X (album) are Madame X (Madonna).

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Madame X Tour

The Madame X Tour was the eleventh concert tour by American singer Madonna, in support of her fourteenth studio album, Madame X (2019). Batuka (song) and Madame X Tour are Madame X (Madonna).

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Madame X: Music from the Theater Xperience

Madame X: Music from the Theater Xperience is the sixth live album by Madonna, released by Warner Records on October 8, 2021, through all digital platforms, to accompany the release of the concert film of the same name. Batuka (song) and Madame X: Music from the Theater Xperience are Madame X (Madonna).

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Madonna

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Metro Weekly

Metro Weekly is a free weekly magazine for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community in Washington, D.C., United States.

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Mirwais Ahmadzaï

Mirwais Ahmadzaï (born 23 October 1960), known mononymously as Mirwais, is a French electronic dance music record producer and songwriter.

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MRC (company)

MRC II Distribution Company, L.P., doing business as MRC (formerly Media Rights Capital), is an American film and television studio.

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Music journalism

Music journalism (or music criticism) is media criticism and reporting about music topics, including popular music, classical music, and traditional music.

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MusicOMH

MusicOMH is a London-based online music magazine which publishes independent reviews, features and interviews from across all genres including classical, metal, rock and R&B.

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Nelly Furtado

Nelly Kim Furtado (born December 2, 1978) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

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New York (magazine)

New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Paper (magazine)

Paper (also known as Paper Mag) is a New York City-based independent magazine focusing on fashion, popular culture, nightlife, music, art, and film.

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Público (Portugal)

Público (English: Public) is a Portuguese daily national newspaper of record published in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Piracy Funds Terrorism

Piracy Funds Terrorism Volume 1, usually referred to simply as Piracy Funds Terrorism, is a mixtape produced by British recording artist M.I.A. and American DJ Diplo featuring vocal tracks intended for M.I.A.'s debut album Arular mashed up with samples of other recordings.

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Refinery29

Refinery29 (R29) is an American multinational digital media and entertainment website focused on young women.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Samba

Samba is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba), samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), recognized as part of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states.

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San Francisco Examiner

The San Francisco Examiner is a newspaper distributed in and around San Francisco, California, and has been published since 1863.

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Shots Podcast Network

Shots Podcast Network is a podcasting company founded by brothers John Shahidi and Sam Shahidi.

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Sintra

Sintra is a town and municipality in the Greater Lisbon region of Portugal, located on the Portuguese Riviera.

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St. Galler Tagblatt

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher.

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The Economist

The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Quietus

The Quietus is a British online music and pop culture magazine founded by John Doran and Luke Turner.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper based in London.

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Time signature

A time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, and measure signature) is a convention in Western music notation that specifies how many note values of a particular type are contained in each measure (bar).

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Tropicália

Tropicália, also known as tropicalismo, was a Brazilian artistic movement that arose in the late 1960s.

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Us Weekly

Us Weekly is a weekly celebrity and entertainment magazine based in New York City.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.

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Washington Blade

The Washington Blade is an LGBT newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area.

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See also

Madame X (Madonna)

• Batuka (song)
• Future (song)
• God Control
• I Don't Search I Find
• I Rise (song)
• Madame X (2021 film)
• Madame X (album)
• Madame X Tour
• Madame X: Music from the Theater Xperience
• Medellín (song)

Songs written by Mirwais Ahmadzaï

• ADD SUV
• American Life (song)
• Batuka (song)
• Dark Ballet
• Die Another Day (song)
• Don't Tell Me (Madonna song)
• God Control
• Hollywood (Madonna song)
• I Don't Search I Find
• Impressive Instant
• Love Profusion
• Medellín (song)
• Music (Madonna song)
• Nobody Knows Me

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batuka_(song)

Also known as Batuka (Madonna song).

, Sintra, St. Galler Tagblatt, The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Observer, The Quietus, The Times, Time signature, Tropicália, Us Weekly, Variety (magazine), Vocoder, Washington Blade.