Showing posts with label Niger Delta. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Niger Delta. Show all posts

Nneka - (Stellar music videos and live performances)

MusicTelevision.Com presents Nneka and her best music videos and filmed live performances

Nneka is a underappreciated rising artist to keep your eye and ear tuned to. She generally sings about important and deeply thoughtful issues in terms of truth, love and justice for all mankind and how that is connected to heavy issues like political corruption, crony capitalism and those insiders benefiting from the ruination of resource centers.

Nneka being from Lagos, Nigeria in the oil rich Niger Delta region of Africa, is all to familiar with life's harsh realities for those in her homeland. The gulf of Mexico oil spill is really, truly nothing.... compared to decades of such never ending raping and pillaging of the Lagos region by global energy cartels.

When Nneka sings, she is singing about real hard core issues, hidden in what often seem like love songs, at first.

At times, a humanitarian voice with the vocal phrasing & articulation of Michael Jackson comes out of Nneka at times. It's likely not a conscious thing, but it's beautiful to witness.

It's never like she is copying anybody. She is a true original and most certainly the real deal on many levels.

Nneka is only one of a small handful of artists with a most powerful sound, who also sings about many things important. That's why she is one to watch, for those who seek revolutionary change for the better.

Please click the play button of the first video below and choose the high-resolution & screen options.  When the first music video ends, it will automatically be followed by the other videos below, followed by several more hours of excellent music videos if you choose to let it roll. Press forward to skip any video or click the reverse button to replay or return to previous songs, or exit the fullscreen mode to choose a new video.

Nneka - Africans (2007)

Heartbeat (2007)

Come with Me - (live unplugged in France on madmoiZelle TV)

Soul is Heavy (Title track from Nneka's latest 2011-2012 release)

Do You Love Me Now - (Stellar live acoustic version with Nneka speaking about her backstory :)

Nneka feat. Ziggy Marley & Eeday - Express Yourself
Soundtrack from the 2011 hip-hop feature film titled Beat The World

Bantu feat. Nneka "I'm Waiting"
Soundtrack from the film titled Relentless

God of Mercy (Live in France at Vieilles Charrues Festival - 2009)

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Femi Kuti - Beng Beng Beng (Music Video)

Music Television presents Femi Kuti and the music video for his song titled Beng Beng Beng

Femi Kuti is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of the late great Nigerian music king and afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti. Femi was born in Lagos, Nigeria, the same place one of my favorite artists, Nneka, is from. The thing these three powerful artists share in common is their songs that exude their strong commitment to social and political causes. The region of Lagos, in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, is a corporatist haven where politicians and the energy companies have cultivated an environment of crony capitalism which has led to the environmental destruction of the region as oil companies rape and pillage both the land, waterways, air and the downtrodden citizens of the region. The kinds of routine oil spills in the Niger Delta make the U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil spill by BP seem like just a little bit of spilled milk.

With that said, this happens to be one song of Femi Kuti's that is not so political. It's pure sexy Cuban infused Nigerian soul that is it's own universal language.

Please click the play button of the video below and choose the high-resolution & full screen options.  When the video ends, it will automatically be followed by several excellent curated music videos. Press forward to skip or the reverse button to return to previous songs. Exit full screen mode to pick a new video.

Femi Kuti - Beng Beng Beng

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This post was originally created on September 20, 2011, with subsequent edits and updates by The Indies Network at TheIndiesNetworkCom, Facebook.Com/TheIndiesNetwork and Twitter.Com/indies

Nneka - Do you love me now (live session @ streets of Paris)

Nneka is one of the most inspired artists I've ever met. This is a recent clip that began appearing on YouTube recently. She has a way of taking love song and making them heavy. Enjoy!

Nneka - Do you love me now (live session @ streets of Paris)

Her signature songs such as Africans get political and social.

Heartbeat starts out like a love song, but has political undertones woven in the lyrics.

To me, she has got the activist of Bob Marley inside of her. Every day I wish I was finding more artists like her. But, Nneka is rare.... nobody quite like her.

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This post was originally created on September 11, 2011, with subsequent edits and updates by The Indies Network at TheIndiesNetworkCom, Facebook.Com/TheIndiesNetwork and Twitter.Com/indies


Nneka - The Uncomfortable Truth (Live In Concert)

MusicTelevision.Com presents Nneka and her song The Uncomfortable Truth

Nneka is one of the most substantive artists on the horizon and a most gifted activist oriented recording artists stumping for Africa, the world, love, truth and real change. Nneka delivers the goods crossing multiple genres of funky soulful reggae that meets jazz, dub and groove mixed with powerful edgy vocals with a sass that is all her own.

She deserves a 5 Heart Rating all the way ♥♥♥♥♥

Nneka - The Uncomfortable Truth

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