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voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
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voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
voaafrica.com | Esther Githui-Ewart |Heather Maxwell
The URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. One of the biggest international music awards shows, the Grammys, have announced their nominees for their upcoming February 2nd award’s night in Los Angeles, California. VOA’s Heather Maxwell updates viewers on the biggest names vying for the golden gramophone statuette.
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
The URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. Mongezi Ntaka, an award-winning South African musician recently worked with his countrywoman, Lorraine Klaasen, the daughter to Thandi Klaasen, an iconic African Jazz musician, on an Extended Play (EP) titled "Polokwane: Quintessential African Story." For more on the EP, Ntaka visited VOA to sit down with Heather Maxwell.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
On this week’s entertainment report, host of VOA’s Music Time in Africa, Heather Maxwell sat down with Gogowe, a Nigerian American singer who spoke about her experience as an artist from West Africa who lives in Washington D.C. Gogowe also performed some of her latest songs.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell |Jackson Mvunganyi
Malian singers Amadou & Mariam have been singing together for 50 years. The married duo known as "the blind couple from Mali" produces music that mixes traditional Mali sound with rock guitars, and other global instruments to produce music that has been referred to as "Afro-blues". During their recent stop in Virginia on their U.S. tour, they sat down for a chat with VOA Music time in Africa host Heather Maxwell about their music and the secret to their longevity.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
The URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. VOA’s Heather Maxwell welcomed Togolese singer, songwriter, and bandleader Massama Dogo, better known as Dogo du Togo, to perform live from his newest album, Avoudé. Drawing his inspiration from Togo’s vaudou, bobo, and Simpa melodies, Dogo weaves his contemporary experiences with the rich, musical traditions.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
The URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. The famed Malian musical duo couple Amadou & Mariam speak with VOA’s Heather Maxwell backstage before a live concert at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Virginia. The musicians, who are both blind, have been married and making hit records for 50 years.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
The URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. VOA's Music Time in Africa host Heather Maxwell speaks with Bill Odidi, a music journalist based in Nairobi, about a heartwarming story on how a piano was transported several thousand miles from London to Pharo School Homosha, a rural all-girls school in western Ethiopia.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
voaafrica.com | Heather Maxwell
No media source currently availableThe URL has been copied to your clipboardThe code has been copied to your clipboard. The Mozambican jazz saxophonist Moreira Chonguica who won the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Lettres talks with VOA’s Heather Maxwell on his upcoming projects.
