It's upon those foundations that artists like myself see fertile grounds to nurture this connection and magnify it because it is a living, breathing spiritual connection.
When we look at the legacy of slavery and the origins of Africa and people of African descent, who through slavery where transplanted in different parts of the world, music became the medium by which we tied and connected to Africa, by which our origins were kept alive over generations and over time. Would you say it is particularly important to draw ties through music between the Caribbean and West Africa today? I see afroroots as an expression of modern African music, but driven heavily by the traditional foundations. My music evolved with this foundation of African music and acquired other aspects of global music. As an artist, over the years, rising from those foundations, I embraced reggae music, I embraced various forms of global rhythms. Not only with highlife music, but traditional cultural music. I would describe afroroots music as fundamentally highlife music. How would you personally describe the genre? Your music straddles Africa and the Caribbean to produce what you call afroroots. Rocky Dawuni "Beautiful People" Official Video youtu.beĬonduit is such a relevant word here. On the heels of the announcement that the 2022 GRAMMYs Awards show had officially been rescheduled to April 3, Dawuni sat down with OkayAfrica to discuss the makings of his eighth studio album and its nomination in the category of Best Global Music Album, the cultural moment that popular African music presents to diasporic musicians and the diaspora at large, what it means to grow up in a royal traditional family of Bunbon, and what’s at stake as African-rooted genres such as afrobeats become global and a part of mainstream culture. 1, which he tells OkayAfrica is a “sonic journey of empowerment.”
There has never been a people who have been able to rise to their highest potential without having their culture as a means of stating who they are.” This serves as the singular impetus behind Dawuni’s recently Grammy-nominated album Voice of Bunbon, Vol. Earlier this year, Ghanaian singer-songwriter and producer Rocky Dawuni opened his keynote speech at the World Day of African & Afrodescendant Culture in Accra by saying, “Culture is our identity.
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