This post is by Arthur Rothe :)
This post will take you first to African continent, Gabon.
Patience Marie
Josephine Kama Dabany was born 22 January 1944. She is a Gabonese singer and
musician. Dabany served as the First Lady of Gabon from 1967 to 1988. For
nearly 30 years she was married to Omar Bongo Ondimba, who was President of
Gabon from 1967 to 2009. After their divorce, she successfully pursued a career
in music under her new name, Patience Dabany. Her first album was Levekisha.
Other albums followed such as Cheri Ton Disque Est Rayé, Associé, and Patience
Dabany in 1994. In 1997, she released the album Nouvelle Attitude. In 2001 she
released Article 106. Her 2004 world music album Obomiyia allowed her to tour
with James Brown in Europe. She recorded an album with Kounabeli in 2005; the
song La Connaissance from this album was one of the anthems of her former
husband used during the presidential campaign of 2005.
Patience Dabany
collaborated with many artists such as El DeBarge, Tabu Ley Rochereau, and
Tshala Muana. She is also the president of the Association of Gabonese
Merchants and works in the field of charity. She was awarded an Honorary
Doctorate of music in Los Angeles. She has composed music for feature films.
Argentina
Miranda! is an
Argentine electro pop band formed in 2001. Band members include Alejandro Sergi
(vocals), Juliana Gattas (vocals), Lolo Fuentes (guitar), Bruno de Vincenti
(programming), and since 2003, Nicolás Grimaldi (bass). The group has found
success throughout Latin America as well as in the United States and Europe.
Their popularity
grew around the Buenos Aires underground music circuit, based on their peculiar
music, style, and looks. Their unique live performances, in which the band
members ‘acted out’ the lyrics of their songs, gained them a great amount of followers,
as well as a number of prizes on such publications as the Argentine version of
the Rolling Stone Magazine, which named them the Revelation Band of 2002.
The same year, they
released their first album, Es Mentira, which would spawn five singles: Bailarina,
Imán, Tu Juego, Agua and Romix.
In 2004 Miranda!
edited their second album, entitled Sin Restricciones, which would mean the
mainstream breakthrough of the band, with hits like Yo Te Diré or Don.
Prisionero, the
first single off their new album El Disco de tu Corazón, became a #1 hit in
their native Argentina. However, the second single Perfecta with Mexican singer
Julieta Venegas became an even bigger hit worldwide, topping the charts in many
Spanish-speaking countries.
The single from El
Disco de tu Corazón is simply-called Hola, and is the first to be released in
2009. The video from Hola is comic-based on a narrated chat communication
between two people who end up having sex in a room.
