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Music Review | “Some Nights” by Fun

Lets get ready to have some Fun! This New York based American Indie band is one of the most intriguing new bands to emerge recent years. After making a huge buzz with their 2012 hit “We Are Young,” Fun is back with “Some Nights,” from their second album of the same name. Released on June 4, 2012, The song has sold over 4 million copies in the US as of January 2013…

The African Folk Soul of Bongos Ikwue: Beloved Nigerian Singer-Songwriter’s First U.S. Release

The 1970’s were an extremely fertile era for music. In America, progressive soul and funk broke new ground while London spawned the punk rock scene and Kingston, Jamaica gave the world roots reggae. In Nigeria, an extraordinarily diverse and dynamic cultural scene yielded not only Fela’s Afrobeat and juju’s peak with Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey but also myriad rock and funk groups such as BLO and The Funkees. One of the most popular singers on the Nigeria scene at that time was Bongos Ikwue, whose personalized style of African folk and American soul music made him completely unique

Christy Turlington Burns: Global Supermodel to Global Superadvocate

Christy Turlington Burns, the California-born beauty of Salvadoran descent, is more than a supermodel. She’s also an advocate for human rights, a yoga practitioner, a businesswoman, and a mother.