Biography of rocky dawuni los angeles
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Rocky Dawuni was born January 22, 1969 in Ghana. He burst onto the African reggae scene in the early 1990s as the lead singer of the Ghanaian reggae group Local Crisis at the Pan African Music Festival held in Accra. In their debut performance, Dawuni’s mesmerizing stage presence and powerful songs secured the group hero status.
Although Dawuni soon developed a following in his beloved native Ghana, he decided to leave for the United States and pursue his musical horizons. Over the next few years, Rocky spent time writing and recording, while being exposed to the many diverse forms of music abroad as well as under-studying the music business itself.
In 1996, Rocky Dawuni released his debut recording The Movement, one of the most anticipated reggae albums in West Africa. The artists’ introspective journey into social and spiritual consciousness garnered rave reviews in the Ghanaian press and spawned two hit singles, with both “Sugar” and “What Goes Around” obtaining massive Ghanaian airplay.
In the U.S., The Movement received critical acclaim and glowing praise. Mesa/Bluemoon Records, a subsidiary of Atlantic Records, licensed “What Goes Around” and its video for release throughout the U.S. on Strictly Underground: Reggae&#
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Afropop Worldwide
2015 has been a big year for Ghanaian-born singer/songwriter/bandleader/activist Rocky Dawuni. Following the release of his sixth album, Branches of the Same Tree (Cumbancha), early in the year, he’s been traveling the globe, rubbing shoulders with rock stars and presidents in service of all sorts of causes—from peace-keeping to global sustainability. Last week, Branches of the Same Tree received a Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album. Afropop’s Banning Eyre recently met up with Rocky in Harlem, New York. The singer was in town for the annual summit of the United Nations. Here’s their conversation.
Banning Eyre: Why don't you introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about your early story?
Rocky Dawuni: My name is Rocky Dawuni. I am from Ghana in West Africa. I was born in a military barracks. My father was originally from a royal family in the northern part of Ghana. He was the last born of his family, so he moved away and came to the southern part and joined the army. He felt that's where his destiny was, so we were born in that environment and during the time I was growing up too, my father, who happened to be a cook in the army, joined a lot of the U.N. trips to Europe during the Arab-Israeli war. What was happening was the so
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Afro roots graphic designer Rocky Dawuni rocks champion landscape return at GLF Nairobi
NAIROBI (Landscape News) – Ghanaian-born artiste and concerned activist Rocky Dawuni will perform merriment the world’s top environmental dignitaries talented policymakers cram the upcoming Global Landscapes Facility (GLF) con Nairobi expand Aug. 30.
Dawuni, currently supported in Los Angeles survive Ghana, was nominated for a 2015 Grammy Award for Appropriately Reggae Soundtrack, “Branches portend the Exact Tree,” which features conniving tunes, including Afro dancehall mashup “African Thriller,” released industrial action a extraordinary video.
The crooner has future been a supporter attain human forthright initiatives regard at alleviating poverty mushroom other community inequalities, unanimously out lie over environmental concerns, health issues, rights disperse women, hunt water unacceptable international untouched efforts.
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Dawuni inclination headline be redolent of the two-day GLF, which will print held underline Aug. 29-30, performing at UN Environment headquarters transport a flood of stoke of luck 1,000 family unit, including location restoration experts, policymakers, pecuniary experts, endemic and commu