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Two kings of reggae, Jimmy Cliff and Tiken Jah Fakoly, inaugurated the Sea of ​​Music (16/07/2015)

Two kings of world reggae agree on the opening night of the Sea of Music, on Friday July 17 at the Auditorium Park Towers at 23.00 hours.

Reggae will be the star of the opening of the festival of Cartagena, where the Jamaican sound represented by Jimmy Cliff, one of its pillars, and Africa represented by one of its most visible leaders, the Ivorian Tiken Jah Fakoly, they will find the hand.

Tickets for this event are complete with the actions of the Chilean Ana Tijoux in the Arab Camila Moreno Castillo and La Catedral.

First day of the 21st edition of the Sea of Music, which this year makes a special Chile.

Jimmy Cliff is one of the stars of reggae and ska from the 60s, songwriter reference as Many Rivers to Cross, I Can See Clearly now, Wonderful World, Beautiful People. .. The Jamaican composed the soundtrack and also starred in the film The Harder They Come (1972), who popularized reggae worldwide.

He has collaborated with big names in rock, including The Rolling Stones, Elvis Costello, Sting and Annie Lennox.

Jamaica getting its full independence after centuries of British rule on August 6, 1962. Jimmy Cliff was fourteen, Bob Marley three.

The wave of sensations that flood a country that maintains sovereignty, hatches, in the case of Jamaica, in a creative and musical boom.

Reggae, dub, ska ... The political situation was complicated in those sixties.

This, coupled with the poor living conditions in the ghettos of cities, led to the emergence of a new culture.

In the 1960s gives way to ska reggae music, steeped in Rastafarian ideology.

In 1964, Jimmy Cliff, a local musician, was chosen as one of the Jamaican representatives to the World's Fair that year.

That experience earned him a British label to notice him.

So in 1968 the first album of Jimmy Cliff appears, Hard road to travel which highlights its first great success, Waterfalls.

In later years they were seeing the light the best works of Jamaican musician.

He album after album, Cliff was leaving gems like Sittin in Limbo, with which reached the second place in the UK charts, or Many Rivers to Cross.

The seventies were consecrating him as one of the figures of Jamaican music. Wonderful World, Beautiful People and Vietnam gave him a big boost worldwide.

Whereas the same Bob Dylan spoke of Vietnam as one of the best protest songs of all time.

Between 1973 and 1975 he published six albums, including the soundtrack for the film The Harder They Come, in which he plays an important role.

Although during the eighties music he suffers from some creative crisis, in this period signing some of his biggest hits, as Cliff Hanger (1985) for which he won a Grammy Award.

During the nineties he published only three albums, with a break of eight years between the first and the next two.

Although it shakes its evils surprising everyone with two excellent pieces of this new millennium. Fantastic Plastic People (2002) and Black Magic (2004), an album of duets in which shares micro with people like Sting, Joe Strummer or Wyclef Jean.

His latest album Rebirth was published in 2012. After more than 50 year career (his first hit, Hurricane Hattie, succeeded with only 14 years in 1962), it remains headlining festivals in which it participates.

Tiken Jah Fakoly

His protest message and using a style without borders and have made ​​reggae Tiken Jah Fakoly an idol for African youth, both within and outside the continent, and their music is up consciences.

Uses his songs to denounce the abuses and excesses on the part of African governments, also attacks the multinationals, who practice another model of slavery, economic, and against Western governments that support dictatorships, maintaining corruption, exploitation and hunger just to take their part in the distribution of African wealth.

Also sings about education, unity and pride of Africa.

Thanks to all this, the popularity of Tiken grew among the youngest but the enmity of their leaders also won.

Fakoly was born in Ivory Coast in 1968, into a family of griots, street musicians and storytellers who keep alive the African oral tradition.

After a youth devoted to music, Fakoly became known in 1993 when he broke into the Ivorian music scene with a speech of denunciation and social commitment at a crucial moment in the history of the African country: the dictator's death Hophuà «t Boigny.

Years later, a new crisis in Ivory Coast and positioning provoke complaints have to take refuge in Mali.

In 2007, while his penultimate album, L'Africain, became a bestseller in France, Fakoly announced its intention to act in Ivory Coast, a gesture directly related to the national reconciliation process underway in the country , which ended seven years of civil war.

Tiken Jah Fakoly took the Jamaican roots reggae and African instrumentation has been added and, above all, some letters focused on what he and Africans live.

He understood that reggae music is not only to dance but also music to pursue a message of struggle.

A concert one escuela¿ is one of its projects and is convinced that education, with the construction of schools for the education of African children, get your people one day wake up and rebel against injustice and fight for their rights.

It comes to the Sea of Music Warrior Africa to present in Spain for the first time their latest album Dernier Appel.

Ana Tijoux in the Arab Castillo

Chilean Ana Tijoux is protesting to the rhythm of hip hop.

Your letter may well be what they say it means as The Rolling Stones who chose as the best rapper in Spanish, The New York Times notes that as the Latin American response to Lauryn Hill, or magazines like Newsweek that classified as the most important Latin American rapper on the international scene.

Ana Tijoux was born in Paris.

His parents were exiled during the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, and this has left a mark on his career, marked by a special sensitivity to political and social issues.

Often their involvement in campaigns against inequality and oppression in the world.

Anita Tijoux, as it is known, has a great popularity in Latin America, among hip hop fans and the music industry.

It was part of the rap band Makiza Chile and in 2007 released his first solo work.

That same year along with Julieta Venegas recorded the song you for me, reaching great success in Latin America and Spain.

The leader of Radiohead, Thom Yorke, advised his followers to listen to the song 1977 of the Franco-Chilean what Tijoux's popularity rose in Europe.

1977 plus you can hear in the popular series Breaking Bad and the game FIFA 2011. Today, Anita Tijoux is one of the most recognized Chilean abroad, and more Hispanic rapper praised worldwide.

It has dozens of nominations for various awards such as MTV, Top 40, Indie Music Awards and has four Grammy nominations Chilean women becoming more nominations for these awards.

Camila Moreno in the Cathedral

Camila Moreno is one of the most representative of the new generation of songwriters in Chile in early twenty-first century figures.

With his music constantly explores new places and cultural influences, jumping from guitar to synthesizer, folk sounds more electronic sounds.

He never tires of repeating again and again in interviews that she is only a woman expressing anger.

Nominated in 2009 for the Latin Grammy for his song Millions, claimed the Chilean political commitment and declared as an insolent artist who shuns complacency.

His music transcends cliché and play with the energy of rock and unexpected rhythms found through electronic bases.

This experimental way with their second album began.

Soon will his next album, a job sounds mysterious and amazing that for the first time in his career will be focused on the dance floor.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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