Gambia: Legends - - Ifang Bondi Band - Afro Manding Sounds

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Africa's Music Revolution partly started in The Gambia with the dynamic Super Eagles with their song Gambia- Zambia in the album, campaigning for 'ONE AFRICA'. The group travelled widely promoting African integration and the philosophy of the de-colonization of Africans to great effect.

Gambian popular music began in the 1960s, when The Super Eagles was formed while hip bands were playing American, British and Cuban music. The Super Eagles went to London in 1977, appearing on Mike Raven's Band Call. They played Merengue and other pop genres with an African flourish, including Wolof lyrics and minor stylistic elements. After the performance, the band began jamming out some traditional tunes and an unknown man had told the group that the style was the right one they should be playing.

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