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01. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Barua (The Letter)
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02. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Ma Eliza (Mama Elizabeth)
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03. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Mpita Njia (A Passer-By)
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04. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Maria
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05. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Mwanaidi
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06. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Si Mimi (It's Not Me)
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07. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Wacha Waseme (Let Them Talk)
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08. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Utalia Na Nani? (Who Will You Cry With?)
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09. ISSA JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS - Mony (Monica)
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ARTIST
JUMA & SUPER WANYIKA STARS, ISSA
TITLE
World Defeats the Grandfathers - Swinging Swahili Rumba 1982-1986
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
STERNS AFRICA
CATALOG #
STCD 3050CD
STCD 3050CD
GENRE
WORLD
RELEASE DATE
12/4/2012
2010 release. Wanyika is Swahili for "wild ones," and it's a fitting moniker for the various related Wanyika bands that dominated the nightclubs, recording studios and radio waves of Nairobi, Kenya, from the early 1970s into the 90s. The Wanyika bands defined Swahili rumba, the dance music popular throughout East Africa: swinging rhythms, ringing electric guitars and strong, earthy vocals.
Issa Juma
was one of the founders of the Wanyika dynasty and, with his powerful baritone and rhythmic phrasing, the most distinctive of its singers. (His voice has been likened to that of the Jamaican reggae singer
Toots Hibbert
of
Toots & the Maytals
.) A prominent member of
Simba Wanyika
and then
Les Wanyika
, Juma formed his own
Super Wanyika Stars
in the early '80s and produced hit after hit until an untimely stroke ended his career in 1988.
World Defeats the Grandfathers
collects the biggest and best of these hits in one rollicking CD that brings the sound of "the wild ones" to America for the first time.
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