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Zap Mama, the Glossary

Zap Mama is a Belgian singer-songwriter, performer, composer, lyricist, activist, video artist and ethno-vocal therapist born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raised in Belgium.^[1]

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Belgian world music groups
Heads Up International artists
Luaka Bop artists

A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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A Ma Zone

A Ma Zone is an album by the group Zap Mama, released in 1999.

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Acrobatics

Acrobatics is the performance of human feats of balance, agility, and motor coordination.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central Africa") are a group of ethnicities native to Central Africa, mostly the Congo Basin, traditionally subsisting on a forager and hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

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Afro fusion

Afro fusion (also spelled afrofusion or afro-fusion) is a dance and musical style that emerged between the 1970s and 2000s.

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Al Jarreau

Alwin Lopez Jarreau (March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017) was an American singer and songwriter.

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Alanis Morissette

Alanis Nadine Morissette (born June 1, 1974) is a Canadian and American singer, songwriter and musician known for her emotive mezzo-soprano voice and confessional songwriting.

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Ancestry in Progress

Ancestry in Progress is an album by Zap Mama, released in 2004.

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Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape

Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape (Pourquoi j'ai pas mangé mon père), also titled Evolution Man and Why I Did (Not) Eat My Father, is a 2015 animated adventure comedy film directed by Jamel Debbouze in collaboration with producer Fred Fougea.

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Antwerp

Antwerp (Antwerpen; Anvers) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium.

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Arno (singer)

Arnold Charles Ernest Hintjens (21 May 1949 – 23 April 2022), better known by his stage name Arno, was a Belgian singer.

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Arrested Development (group)

Arrested Development is an American hip hop group, that was formed in Atlanta in 1988.

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École nationale de cirque

The National Circus School (École nationale de cirque) is a professional circus school located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Bahamadia

Antonia D. Reed (born April 22, 1966), known professionally as Bahamadia, is an American hip hop artist and singer. Bahamadia released her debut album, Kollage, in 1996, followed by the independently released EP BB Queen in 2000. She then released a full-length album, Good Rap Music, in 2005. Bahamadia has also released the singles "Dialed Up Vol.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys were an American hip hop/rap rock group from New York City, formed in 1981.

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Beatboxing

Beatboxing (also beat boxing) is a form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of mimicking drum machines (typically a TR-808), using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe.

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BET

Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting Black American audiences.

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Bilal (American singer)

Bilal Sayeed Oliver (born August 23, 1979) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bill Fishman (director)

Bill Fishman is an American film director, whose work includes the cult film Tapeheads, starring Tim Robbins and John Cusack, as well as the film version of the TV classic Car 54, Where Are You? He won an award at the 1999 New York International Independent Film & Video Festival and has also directed numerous music videos for such artists as The Ramones, Georgia Satellites, Hank Williams Jr., Suicidal Tendencies and Moloko.

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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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Billboard Music Awards

The Billboard Music Awards are honors given out annually by Billboard, a publication covering the music business and a music popularity chart.

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Black Europeans

Black Europeans of African ancestry, or Afro-Europeans, refers to people in Europe who trace full or partial ancestry to Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Black Thought

Tariq Luqmaan Trotter (born October 3, 1971), better known as Black Thought, is an American rapper, singer, actor and the lead MC of the Philadelphia-based hip hop group The Roots, which he co-founded with drummer Questlove.

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BMW

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, commonly abbreviated to BMW, is a German multinational manufacturer of luxury vehicles and motorcycles headquartered in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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Bob Marley

Robert Nesta Marley (6 February 1945 – 11 May 1981) was a Jamaican reggae singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

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Bobby McFerrin

Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and conductor.

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Boyd Jarvis

Boyd H. Jarvis (October 26, 1958 – February 17, 2018) was an American record producer, remixer and musician, best known for his song, co-written with Jason Smith, "The Music Got Me"; released in 1983 by Prelude Records.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called b-boying, b-girling or breaking, is a style of street dance originated by African Americans in the Bronx, New York City, United States.

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Brothers & Sisters (2006 TV series)

Brothers & Sisters is an American family drama television series that centers on the Walker family and their lives in Los Angeles and Pasadena, California.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Bukavu

Bukavu is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River.

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Carl Craig

Carl Craig (born May 22, 1969) is an American electronic music producer, DJ, and founder of the record label Planet E Communications.

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Carmen Jones (film)

Carmen Jones is a 1954 American musical film featuring an African American cast starring Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge, and Pearl Bailey and produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

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Carmen Sandiego (video game series)

Carmen Sandiego is a series of American educational mystery video games that spawned an edutainment franchise of the same name.

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Cashmere Mafia

Cashmere Mafia is an American comedy-drama television series which ran on ABC from January 6, 2008 to February 20, 2008.

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Choreography

Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified.

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Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola, or Coke, is a carbonated soft drink with a cola flavor manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company.

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Common (rapper)

Lonnie Rashid Lynn (born March 14, 1972), known professionally as Common (formerly known as Common Sense), is an American rapper and actor from Chicago, Illinois.

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Concord Music Group

Concord Music Group was an American independent music company based in Beverly Hills, California, with worldwide (including the U.S.) distribution through Universal Music Group.

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Congo Crisis

The Congo Crisis (Crise congolaise) was a period of political upheaval and conflict between 1960 and 1965 in the Republic of the Congo (today the Democratic Republic of the Congo).

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Crammed Discs

Crammed Discs is an independent record label whose output blends world music, rock, pop, and electronica.

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Dag Hammarskjöld

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld (29 July 1905 – 18 September 1961) was a Swedish economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.

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David Byrne

David Byrne (born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. Zap Mama and David Byrne are Luaka Bop artists.

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David Gilmore

David Gilmore (born 5 February 1964) is an American jazz guitarist.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor.

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Disney+

Disney+ is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming media service owned and operated by Disney Streaming, the streaming division of Disney Entertainment, a major business segment of the Walt Disney Company.

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DJ Krush

, better known by his stage name DJ Krush, is a Japanese record producer and DJ.

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Dogon people

The Dogon are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plateau region of Mali, in West Africa, south of the Niger bend, near the city of Bandiagara, and in Burkina Faso.

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Doug E. Fresh

Douglas Davis, known professionally as Doug E. Fresh, (born September 17, 1966) is a Barbados-born American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer, also known as the "Human Beat Box".

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EA Sports

EA Sports is a division of Electronic Arts that develops and publishes sports video games.

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Elle (magazine)

Elle (stylized in all caps) is a worldwide women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle.

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Emphasis (typography)

In typography, emphasis is the strengthening of words in a text with a font in a different style from the rest of the text, to highlight them.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Erykah Badu

Erica Abi Wright (born February 26, 1971), known professionally as Erykah Badu, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Etta James

Jamesetta Hawkins (January 25, 1938 – January 20, 2012), known professionally as Etta James, was an American singer and songwriter who performed in various genres, including gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, and soul.

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Fiat

Fiat Automobiles S.p.A. (originally FIAT, Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino) is an Italian automobile manufacturer, formerly part of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and since 2021 a subsidiary of Stellantis through its Italian division Stellantis Europe.

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FIFA 10

FIFA 10 (titled FIFA Soccer 10 in North America) is a football simulation video game developed by EA Canada and published by Electronic Arts worldwide under the EA Sports label.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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G. Love

Garrett Dutton (born October 3, 1972), better known as G. Love, is an American singer, rapper and musician best known as the frontman for the band G. Love & Special Sauce.

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G. Love & Special Sauce

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Gnawa

The Gnawa (or Gnaoua, Ghanawa, Ghanawi, Gnawi'; Arabic: ڭناوة) are an ethnic group inhabiting Morocco, that had been brought as slaves from the West African Sahel.

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Goma

Goma (from the Kongo ng'oma or ngoma: ritual drum carved from solid wood, used by the Bantus) is the capital and largest city of the North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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Google Doodle

A Google Doodle is a special, temporary alteration of the logo on Google's homepages intended to commemorate holidays, events, achievements, and historical figures.

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Hans Zimmer

Hans Florian Zimmer (born 12 September 1957) is a German film score composer and music producer.

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Harmonization

In music, harmonization is the chordal accompaniment to a line or melody: "Using chords and melodies together, making harmony by stacking scale tones as triads".

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Heads Up International

Heads Up International is a jazz record label that was formed in Cleveland, Ohio. Zap Mama and Heads Up International are heads Up International artists.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop or hip-hop, also known as rap and formerly as disco rap, is a genre of popular music that originated in the early 1970s from the African American community.

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Ida Kristine Nielsen

Ida Kristine Nielsen (born 1975), also known as Bass Ida, Bassida, and Ida Funkhouser, is a Danish bass player, composer and vocalist.

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Iko Iko

"Iko Iko" is a much-covered New Orleans song that tells of a parade collision between two tribes of Mardi Gras Indians and the traditional confrontation.

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In the Cut (film)

In the Cut is a 2003 psychological thriller film written and directed by Jane Campion and starring Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Kevin Bacon.

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International Women's Day

International Women's Day (IWD) is a holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement.

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Isiro

Isiro (pronounced) is the capital of Haut-Uele Province in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Ituri Rainforest

The Ituri Rainforest (French: Forêt tropicale de l’Ituri) is a rainforest located in the Ituri Province of northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Johan Grimonprez

Johan Grimonprez (born 1962) is a Belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator.

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Jools Holland

Julian Miles Holland (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter.

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Kaya (album)

Kaya is the tenth studio album by the Jamaican band Bob Marley and the Wailers, released in 1978.

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Kery James

Alix Mathurin (born 28 December 1977) better known as Kery James, is a French rapper, singer, songwriter, dancer, playwright, screenwriter, actor, philanthropist and record producer from Orly, who was born in Guadeloupe to Haitian parents.

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King Britt

King Britt (born 1968) is an American educator, DJ and record producer from Philadelphia.

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La Haine

(released in the United States as Hate) is a 1995 French social thriller film written, co-edited, and directed by Mathieu Kassovitz.

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Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Ladysmith Black Mambazo is a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of isicathamiya and mbube. Zap Mama and Ladysmith Black Mambazo are heads Up International artists.

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Ligament

A ligament is the fibrous connective tissue that connects bones to other bones.

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List of television and radio stations owned by TV5 Network

The following is a list of television and radio stations owned by and affiliated with the TV5 Network Inc. in the Philippines, including stations that airs TV5, One Sports and Radyo5.

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Liturgy

Liturgy is the customary public ritual of worship performed by a religious group.

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Love for Sale (Bilal album)

Love for Sale is the unreleased second album by the American singer-songwriter Bilal.

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Luaka Bop

Luaka Bop is a New York–based record label founded by musician David Byrne, former lead singer and guitarist for the art rock–new wave band Talking Heads.

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Mandinka people

The Mandinka or Malinke are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, The Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea.

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Mangbetu people

The Mangbetu are a Central Sudanic ethnic group in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, living in the northeastern province of Haut-Uele.

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Marc Hollander

Marc Hollander is a Belgian musician, producer and creator of the independent record label, Crammed Discs.

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Maria Bethânia

Maria Bethânia Viana Teles Veloso (born 18 June 1946) is a Brazilian singer and songwriter.

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Marie Daulne

Marie Daulne (born 20 October 1964) is a Belgian singer.

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Melody

A melody, also tune, voice or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Mercedes-Benz

Mercedes-Benz, commonly referred to as Mercedes and sometimes as Benz, is a German luxury and commercial vehicle automotive brand established in 1926.

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Michael Franti

Michael Franti (born April 21, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, poet, activist, documentarian, and rapper.

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Mission: Impossible 2

Mission: Impossible 2 (titled onscreen as Mission: Impossible II and abbreviated as M:i-2) is a 2000 action spy film directed by John Woo and produced by and starring Tom Cruise.

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Modern dance

Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Montreux Jazz Festival

The Montreux Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early July in Montreux on the Lake Geneva shoreline.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable television channel.

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Music of Africa

Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.

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Music of the African diaspora

Music of the African diaspora is a sound created, produced, or inspired by black people, including African music traditions and African popular music as well as the music genres of the African diaspora, including some Caribbean music, Latin music, Brazilian music and African-American music.

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Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.

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NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP Image Awards is an annual awards ceremony presented by the U.S.-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to honor outstanding performances in film, television, theatre, music, and literature.

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Nathalie Maleux

Nathalie Maleux (born 4 July 1973 in Waremme) is a Belgian television presenter and journalist.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) are five separate prizes awarded to those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind, as established by the 1895 will of Swedish chemist, engineer, and industrialist Alfred Nobel, in the year before he died.

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.

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Olympia (Paris)

The Olympia (commonly known as L'Olympia or in the English-speaking world as Olympia Hall) is a concert venue in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines, equally distancing Madeleine church and Opéra Garnier, north of Vendôme square.

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Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

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Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia (or rarely echoism) is a type of word, or the process of creating a word, that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes.

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Oral tradition

Oral tradition, or oral lore, is a form of human communication in which knowledge, art, ideas and culture are received, preserved, and transmitted orally from one generation to another.

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Panzi Hospital

Panzi Hospital and Foundation (French: Hôpital et Fondation de Panzi) is a hospital in Bukavu, the capital of the Sud-Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Paratrooper

A paratrooper or military parachutist is a soldier trained to conduct military operations by parachuting directly into an area of operations, usually as part of a large airborne forces unit.

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Patrice Lumumba

Patrice Émery Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), born Isaïe Tasumbu Tawosa, was a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (then known as the Republic of the Congo) from June until September 1960, following the May 1960 election.

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Polyphony

Polyphony is a type of musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody, as opposed to a musical texture with just one voice (monophony) or a texture with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophony).

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Pygmy peoples

In anthropology, pygmy peoples are ethnic groups whose average height is unusually short.

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Questlove

Ahmir K. Thompson (born January 20, 1971), known professionally as Questlove (stylized as), is an American drummer, record producer, disc jockey, filmmaker, music journalist, and actor.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Road Rules

Road Rules is an MTV reality show that was a sister show of the network's flagship reality show, The Real World.

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Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Brussels

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (Académie royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles - École supérieure des Arts (ARBA-ESA); Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel) is an art school in Brussels, Belgium, founded in 1711.

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RTBF

The i ("Belgian Radio-television of the French Community"), shortened to RTBF (branded as rtbf.be), is a public service broadcaster delivering radio and television services to the French-speaking Community of Belgium, in Wallonia and Brussels.

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Run-DMC

Run-DMC (also formatted Run-D.M.C., RUN DMC, or some combination thereof) was an American hip hop group from Hollis, Queens New York City, formed in 1983 by Joseph Simmons, Darryl McDaniels, and Jason Mizell.

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Sérgio Mendes

Sérgio Santos Mendes (born February 11, 1941) is a Brazilian musician.

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Scratch (musician)

Kyle Jones (born in Camden, New Jersey), better known as Scratch, is an American hip hop musician who specializes in Beatboxing and vocal scratch sounds.

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Sesame Street

Sesame Street is an American educational children's television series that combines live-action, sketch comedy, animation and puppetry.

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Seven Year Itch (Etta James album)

Seven Year Itch is the fifteenth studio album by Etta James, released in 1988 by Island Records.

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Simba rebellion

The Simba rebellion, also known as the Orientale revolt, was a regional uprising which took place in the Democratic Republic of the Congo between 1963 and 1965 in the wider context of the Congo Crisis and the Cold War.

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Sintir

The sintir (سنتير), also known as the guembri (الكمبري), gimbri, hejhouj in Hausa language, is a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of Morocco.

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So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series)

So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD) is an American reality television dance competition show that currently airs on Fox in the United States and is the flagship series of the international So You Think You Can Dance television franchise.

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So You Think You Can Dance Australia

So You Think You Can Dance Australia is an Australian version of the American reality dance competition So You Think You Can Dance.

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Sorrow Tears and Blood

Sorrow Tears and Blood is an album by Nigerian Afrobeat composer, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Soweto

Soweto is a township of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa, bordering the city's mining belt in the south.

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Speech (rapper)

Todd Thomas (born October 25, 1968), better known by the stage name Speech, is an American rapper and musician.

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Sport

Sport is a form of physical activity or game.

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Studio 54

Studio 54 is a Broadway theater and former nightclub at 254 West 54th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival (formerly Utah/US Film Festival, then US Film and Video Festival) is an annual film festival organized by the Sundance Institute.

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Talib Kweli

Talib Kweli Greene (born October 3, 1975) is an American rapper.

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Taratata

Taratata is a French television music show showcasing live and pre-recorded footage of current acts.

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Tartit

Tartit (meaning "union") are a band from the Tombouctou Region of Mali.

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Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound.

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The Arsenio Hall Show

The Arsenio Hall Show is an American syndicated late-night talk show created by and starring comedian Arsenio Hall.

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The Fat Boys

The Fat Boys were an American hip hop trio from Brooklyn, New York, who emerged in the early 1980s.

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The God Who Wasn't There

The God Who Wasn't There is a 2005 independent documentary written and directed by Brian Flemming.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Man (2005 film)

The Man is a 2005 American buddy cop comedy film starring Eugene Levy, Samuel L. Jackson, and Miguel Ferrer.

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The Neville Brothers

The Neville Brothers were an American R&B/soul/funk group, formed in 1976 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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The Roots

The Roots are an American hip hop band formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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TheCable

TheCable is an independent online newspaper in Nigeria.

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Tony Allen (musician)

Tony Oladipo Allen (20 July 1940 – 30 April 2020) was a Nigerian and French drummer, composer, and songwriter who lived and worked in Paris, France.

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Tortilla Soup

Tortilla Soup is a 2001 American comedy-drama film directed by María Ripoll.

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Tradition

A tradition is a system of beliefs or behaviors (folk custom) passed down within a group of people or society with symbolic meaning or special significance with origins in the past.

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Tuareg people

The Tuareg people (also spelled Twareg or Touareg; endonym: Imuhaɣ/Imušaɣ/Imašeɣăn/Imajeɣăn) are a large Berber ethnic group, traditionally nomadic pastoralists, who principally inhabit the Sahara in a vast area stretching from far southwestern Libya to southern Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, as far as northern Nigeria.

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U-Roy

Ewart Beckford OD (21 September 1942 – 17 February 2021), known by the stage name U-Roy, was a Jamaican vocalist and pioneer of toasting.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zap_Mama

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