Ammar Kalia
Writer and Global Music Critic at The Guardian
Debut novel, A PERSON IS A PRAYER out now. Global Music Critic @guardian and writer. Contact: [email protected] Agent: @serenadams
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1 week ago |
jazzwise.com | Ammar Kalia
"It’s time to celebrate what’s going on here in the UK,” Parabola Arts Centre programmer Alex Carrx says.
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theguardian.com | Ammar Kalia
Since the release of his international breakthrough Soro in 1987, the Malian singer-songwriter Salif Keita, possessed of a sweetly soulful tone, has been affectionately known as the “Golden Voice of Africa”. His genre-spanning work has featured collaborations with psychedelic guitarist Santana, jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter and Jamaican singer Buju Banton. On So Kono, his first album in seven years, Keita returns with an unusually sparse sound featuring guitar, ngoni, calabash, tama and cello.
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theguardian.com | Ammar Kalia
As far-right political parties have risen in Greece in recent years, young artists from Athens’ migrant communities have been using hip-hop to channel their anger. Rappers such as Kareem Kalokoh and his ATH Kids collective rap (in English) about racism over thunderous trap beats, while Greek-Nigerian artist Moose pays homage to the often-maligned immigrant suburb of Kypseli. Negros Tou Moria, meanwhile, has developed his own Greek-language genre.
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hyphenonline.com | Ammar Kalia
“Women are second-class citizens in Iran and in prison they are oppressed even more,” Maziar Bahari says. The Iranian journalist and film-maker is calling from his London home, recounting the tangle of events that led him to help edit and publish The Evin Prison Bakers’ Club, a remarkable prison memoir-cum-cookbook written by Sepideh Gholian, the 30-year-old political activist who has been in and out of Iranian jails since her first arrest in 2018.
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hyphenonline.com | Ammar Kalia
Before I knew who I was, I knew I was an immigrant. As long as I can remember, before I had a solid sense of self, passions, even personality, my parents would explain my brown skin. They told me that we hailed from pre-partition India and that my great-grandparents emigrated from there to Kenya and Uganda. In the mid-1960s, when those east African countries were gaining independence from British rule, my grandparents decided to settle in England, the place we have remained since.
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