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Ras naya & free island

Country and town: France/ PANTIN

Primary style: Reggae

Founded in: 1998

Music

Mau Mau

Shine

Musicias and instruments

After a long absence from the scene, RAS NAYA returns with a new album in preparation and the expected output since 2007, the album ?Black and White? and his single Mau Mau.
RAS NAYA is from the great ethnicity Mau Mau (pronounced Mao Mao) of Kenya.
Author, composer and performer, artist activist for human rights and committed for the street children in Africa, his life threatened, he fled his country; his exile takes him to London and Paris where he now resides.
Musically, RAS NAYA & FREE ISLAND, his group, remain faithful the timeless sounds of reggae of the former school that they master with talent and inspiration.

FREE ISLAND consist of a drummer, a bassist, a guitarist, a saxophone, a trumpet and a trombone.
RAS NAYA works with a fifty musicians from various origins; Sierra Leone, Germany, Jamaica, USA, Cameroon, France, Spain, Martinique?
In concert, the band captures a wide audience; through their cultural mix, their songs are an invitation to travel but also a call to meditate on peace and injustices in the world.
RAS NAYA with his tall, slender and dynamic, arms raised toward heaven, he swallows the space and channels easily public and FREE ISLAND with sounds and rhythms
of a very high quality.
We often hear ?RAS NAYA is a RASTAFRICAN MAN SHOW!!!?

Published records

With their success in France and abroad, they realize their first album in 1999 entitled Freedom, which they distribute in a limited edition during their shows in the world. This album is the encounter with the roots of tradition of East Africa, the Roots Reggae classic and current urban music subtly let glimpse the colour of the reggae of Anglophone Africa.
The second album, BLACK & WHITE, recorded in Kington in
Jamaica but never distributed, is undoubtedly the performance of a great artist at the top of his musical maturity in collaboration with Big Musicians such as Great Moktar Willy, Jeff, Bravo, Scully, Horsemuth Wallace, Joss Stone?
The release of this album was planned in 2007 with his single ?Mau Mau? but for family reasons RAS NAYA had to return to Africa, the release is scheduled for the end of 2010.

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