Alpha Blondy was a musician well before he discovered reggae. In high school in Dimbokoro, Ivory Coast, known then as Sedou Kone, he played with the Atomic Vibrations, a high school band that played ...

In 1977, Seydou Kone was studying English at Columbia University and working four jobs. He was 5,000 miles from his home in West Africa, but Kone was ecstatic to be in a country that spawned Woodstock ...

Reviews of recent CDs from foreign countries. (And if you say, hey, New Orleans isn’t a foreign country, well, you could use a trip to New Orleans.)Alpha Blondy, “Merci”(Shanachie)Ivory Coast singer ...

Drawing on a Dunhill and sipping port, a foreign ambassador sits in an alcove of a Paris hotel bar, pondering the latest Middle East peace talks. But this roving diplomat dresses like a Rastafarian, ...

Koroga Festival, which happened last weekend, hosted two different sets of fans with very different musical tastes on both days. While Saturday had the more contemporary "Gengetone" artistes like ...

Lagos — These are not the best of times for the once peaceful serene country French-speaking West African country, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire). Like a man under spell, the country is threateningly ...

Kindred spirits: Lincoln Kwesi Johnson, Bob Marley, Youssou N'Dour Show: Monday at the Howard Theatre. Show starts at 8 p.m. 202-803-2899. www.thehowardtheatre.com. $30 in advance, $35 at the door.

Ivorian reggae star Alpha Blondy was involved in securing the Ouagadougou peace deal in 2007, which paved the way for elections in Ivory Coast Ivorian reggae star Alpha Blondy has often been outspoken ...

Reggae fans in Sri Lanka are in for a historic treat as legendary Ivorian reggae icon Alpha Blondy (real name Seydou Koné) is set to perform live in Colombo on July 19, 2025, at the Air Force Grounds ...

Singer Alpha Blondy was in Israel this week for the Zion Reggae Festival. Arutz Sheva met Blondy in Tel Aviv where talked about his deep connection with the land. "My family and I, we are so excited ...

For this year's Meltdown festival, the South Bank turned to eccentric producer and godfather of reggae Lee Scratch Perry to pull together three weeks' worth of programming. Even if much of the process ...