Keziah Jones

Keziah Jones , born Olufemi Sanyaolu on October 1st 1968, is a cosmopolitan bluesman. It mixes the Blues, the Soul and the Funk to create a clean style: the blufunk .

Biography

Born in Lagos with Nigeria and wire from an big family from Lagos, it is high in England and starts to play of the piano at the thirteen years age, before adopting the guitar later three years. It is in the Parisian subway that it is pointed out by an artistic director of Delabel France in 1991. Largely influenced by the political personality and morals of the musician Nigerian Cracked, by the play of Jimi Hendrix and of Prince, it signs in 1993 the disc-proclamation Blufunk Has Fact , a mixture of R&B and acoustic blues carried by the planetary success of individual the Rhythm is coils . The relative commercial failure of African Space Kraft (1995), in which it mentions the problems of the contemporary African artist, and of Liquid Sunshine (1999) move away it from fires of the slope, until in 2003, year during which the publication of Black Orpheus enables him to find the favor of the media. It prepares in 2007 a new album, scheduled for April 2008 in the New Yorkean studios Electric Ladyland.

Discography

External bonds

  • Official site

  • Site Myspace

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