• Worldbeat is a music genre that blends pop music or rock music with world music or traditional music. Worldbeat is similar to other cross-pollination...
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    Rusted Root (category Worldbeat groups)
    Rusted Root is an American worldbeat rock band formed in 1990 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by singer-guitarist Michael Glabicki, bassist Patrick Norman...
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  • Worldbeat is the debut album by Kaoma, released in 1989. It provided three hit singles, two of them achieving success worldwide: "Lambada", "Dançando...
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  • Nortec Rabòday Rara tech Russ music Shamstep Tecnocumbia Tribal guarachero Worldbeat Manila sound Experimental electronic Black MIDI Deconstructed club Drone...
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  • Enigma (German band) (category Worldbeat groups)
    German pop singer Sandra, before he conceived the idea of a new-age, worldbeat project. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, MCMXC a.D. (1990)...
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    has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music. Sting has sold a combined total of more than 100 million...
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  • subgenres such as ethnic fusion (Clannad, Ry Cooder, Enya, etc.) and worldbeat. The term "world music" has been credited to ethnomusicologist Robert...
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    style of Ten. The songs on the album featured elements of garage rock, worldbeat, and experimentalism. After 1998's Yield, which was somewhat of a return...
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  • vegetarian song based on a Xhosa chant) as the band moved closer to a worldbeat sound. Swan was even moved, at one point, to address his listeners as...
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    Beyond (produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello), the worldbeat-influenced Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum in 1997, and Whatever...
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  • Kaoma (category Worldbeat groups)
    the UK Singles Chart. Also in 1989, Kaoma released their first album Worldbeat which achieved worldwide success, becoming - along with Beto Barbosa -...
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    project, scoring for the Australian film Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) with worldbeat music. Released in June 2002, Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof...
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    Byrne's film True Stories (1986), and released their final album, the worldbeat-influenced Naked (1988), before disbanding in 1991. Without Byrne, the...
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  • Naked (Talking Heads album) (category Worldbeat albums)
    Creatures (1985) and True Stories (1986), Naked marked a return to the worldbeat stylings of both Remain in Light (1980) and Speaking in Tongues (1983)...
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    Medicine for the People play a fusion of styles often called world music, or worldbeat. The group's lyrics present a message of social and environmental consciousness...
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  • album, Folklore also incorporates ethnic, pop, folk, alternative pop and worldbeat elements. The album's title was influenced by Furtado's parents' immigration...
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  • Springsteen in New Jersey," wrote Daisann McClane, American journalist and Worldbeat correspondent for Rolling Stone magazine. Rudder's music quickly became...
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  • Viking rock Visual kei Wagnerian rock War metal Wizard rock Wonky pop Worldbeat Yacht rock Youth crew Zeuhl Electronics in rock music Heavy metal genres...
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    (2015–present) Children 1 Musical career Genres Indie pop indie rock baroque pop worldbeat Instruments Vocals guitar piano percussion saxophone Years active 2006–present...
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  • "Send Me on My Way" is a song by American worldbeat rock band Rusted Root. Originally released as a rough version on 1992's Cruel Sun, it was re-recorded...
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  • Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms popular...
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  • incorporating elements of dubstep, techno, disco, electro house and worldbeat. Gomez worked with producers such as Rock Mafia and The Cataracs (now...
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    February 12, 2020, the Akae Beka band played its final tribute show at The Worldbeat cultural center in San Diego, Ca. Edmund Fieulleteau Performed vocals...
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    Afro Celt Sound System (category Worldbeat groups)
    ACSS, Afrocelts Origin London, United Kingdom Genres Ethnic electronica, worldbeat, Celtic fusion, Afrobeat Years active 1995–2024 Labels Real World Records...
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    disbanded due to financial difficulties, though it did peak at No. 2 on CNN's Worldbeat album chart. The first single, "The Centre of the Heart" topped the charts...
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    Retrieved October 18, 2017. Alexander, Brooke (September 3, 1999). "WorldBeat Spotlight - Red Hot + burning with a cause". CNN. Estes, Adam Clark (May...
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  • So (album) (category Worldbeat albums)
    acknowledges this album as a key influence on his own career exploring worldbeat music, saying, "I just kind of got locked into that sound. Peter Gabriel's...
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    performing in 2019 Background information Origin New York City, United States Genres Worldbeat, acoustic, contemporary Christian Years active 1994–present...
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    (1961-06-21) 21 June 1961 (age 63) Paris, France Genres Latin alternative reggae worldbeat ska Occupations Musician singer composer record producer Instruments Vocals...
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  • of world music and various club dance music forms now referred to as "worldbeat" and immediately brought it to the mainstream with the single "Temple...
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