MEMBERS OF YEAR 2010 LIVE PERFORMANCE IN NEW YORK CITY.
Jojo Kuo Leader and Drummer.
Martino guit and vocal.
Kappa Tanabe Guit.
Michael valeanu guit.
Eden Keyboard.
Fred Doumbe Bass.
Takuya KeyBoard and synth
Patrice Blanchard Bass.
Yacine Boularès Sax.
Influences
Manu Dibango, Papa Wemba, Fela Kuti and others
Sounds Like
Manu Dibango, UB40, Lucky Dube, On the Jojo Kuo no Kelen Kelen CD.
Jojo's A B C Jazz band sound like his CD's also like
Fela Kuti, and is unique and Organic
It makes you travel all over in a short time, it never crashes
Jojo Kuo's Afrobeat Collective is exactly that: a collective of musicians in New York sharing an incurable passion for performing quality Afrobeat music. Selected members of this collective are seen on any performances local and afar featuring Jojo Kuo. Members of Jojo Kuo's Afrobeat Collective include Patrice Blanchard, Amayo, Chris Cuzme, Paul Olenick, Martino Atangana, Fabio Morgera, Wabi Chiro, Tiga Jean-Baptiste, Miho, Chaka Moon, and others.
JOJO KUO
&
THE AFRO-BEAT COLLECTIVE
GENRE
Afro-Beat – all rhythms from AFRICA. An avant-garde Fusion of trance and African rhythms that uses repetitive beats to establish a religious audience that will be empowered with lyrics that transcends messages of history, reality and change for societal benefit.
OBJECTIVE
Jojo Kuo is heading a major independent project to satiate the World’s need for organic music. He has brought together a collective of musicians in New York sharing an incurable passion for performing quality Afro-Beat music and named it Jojo Kuo and the Afrobeat Collective. Selected members of this collective are seen on any staged performances locally and internationally.
Members of Jojo Kuo & the A B C include:-
∂ Jojo Kuo – drum set
∂ Frederic Doumbe – Bass Guitar
∂ Amayo - Vocals
∂ Yacine - Sax
∂ Martino Atangana, - Guitar and vocals
∂ Daniel Moreno - Percussion
∂ Adou Azhouni – Keyboards
∂ Aisha brewer – Dance Percussion and vocal
∂ Michael Valeanu- Guit
BIOGRAPHY
Jojo Kuo is one Africa’s veteran jazz, Afro pop and World drummer/producer and a much-sought after musician who is known globally for his extraordinary drumming talent.
He has contributed to and collaborated with such artists as Manu Dibango, Fela Kuti, Peter Gabriel, Papa wemba, Mory Kante, Harry Belafonte, and Richard Bona, to name just few.
Jojo’s creative talents have contributed directly to the success of many African hits, most notably Mory Kante’s (YEKE YEKE), an early World beat production dance hit which sold over a million records worldwide.
DISCOGRAPHY
v Manu Dibango Album: Soul Makossa, Electric Makossa, Polysonic, Waka Juju and more
v Fela Kuti Album – ITT, also part of Band – Egypt 80
v Bela Fleck Vale tone
v Richard Bona
v Mory Kante
v Antibalas afro beat Orchestra – Uprising and Machete
v Kokolo-More Consideration/CD Baby
v Pierre simon
v Daktaris
v Sam Fantomas Album -African typic collection, & more
v Pierre Akendengue Album: Awana Africa, Koukou moulele and more
v Coco Ateba,
v Pierre Claver Zeng,
v Joe Masso,
v Tala Andre Marie
v and more.
v
Martino Atangana –guitar and Vocal
One of the most talented African guitarists today, Martin Atangana, also known as "Martino" Atangana, was born and raised in Cameroon, Central Africa. It was there that he began his musical career in the late 1970s, playing with church and high school bands. In the early 1980s, he started performing with professional artists such as Betty BETTY, Dyna BELL, Ali BABA, Ben DECCA, "Ange" EBOGO, Emile KANGUE, Théo-Blaise KOUNKOU, Pierre de MOUSSY, Elie-Martin MBA, Anne-Marie NDZIE, MEKONGO PRESIDENT, and Johnny TEZANO, to name a few. In 1986 he toured with Manu Dibango of Soul Makossa fame.
During the same year, Martino moved to France to pursue graduate studies. While there, he played on Paul Simon's album The Rhythm of the Saints in 1990, and worked with Jean-Luc Ponty from 1991 to 1993, recording two of Ponty's albums, Tchokola and No Absolute Time, as well as touring with him in North America and Europe. During his stay in France, Martino also performed with Sorry BAMBA, Mony BILLE, Sam FANTOMAS, Teta LANDO, Daddy MIMBO, ZAO, and many others, and recorded with J.B. AKAMBA (Mbazoa), Uta BELLA (Eyong), Henri DIKONGUE (Wa), Sissi DIPOKO (Munam), Douglas MBIDA (Cameroon, and Za më yën), Georges SEBA (Freedom), Manuel WANDJI (Radio Trottoir), and Brice WASSY (N'ga Funk).
Amayo – Vocal and percussion
As the lead singer, percussionist and composer for Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, Amayo has ignited festival crowds and packed audiences into a frenzy across the US, Western and Eastern Europe, and Japan. Continuing in the tradition of Fela Kuti, Amayo presents the world with his one-of-a-kind style of music, dance, and martial arts - FU-ARKIST-RA. In addition to composing and arranging all the songs, Amayo sings and plays piano and organ intermixed with charged performances of traditional African lyrics and movement. He has opened for James Brown, performed with Tony Allen, Femi Kuti, Seun Kuti, Baba Mal, and with Michael Franti and Spearhead. British-born of Nigerian parents, Amayo’s spirit was first ignited at Fela’s club, The Shrine, in Lagos, Nigeria. While growing up in Lagos, his primary passions were dancing and practicing Kung Fu to the rhythms of Funk and Afrobeat. It was then that the seed of Afrobeat was first implanted within him.
Fred Doumbe –Bass
From Cameroon.
Adou Azouhouni – Keyboard
From Ivory Coast.
Takuya –keyboard
From japan.
Yacine – Sax
From France.
Michael Valeanu – Guitar
From France
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