- Palm-wine music
:"Maringa redirects here. For the Brazilian city, see
Maringá ."Palm-wine music (known as maringa inSierra Leone ) is aWest Africa nmusical genre . It evolved among theKru people of Sierra Leone andLiberia , who used Portugueseguitar s brought by sailors, combining local melodies and rhythms with Trinidadian calypso. Palm-wine music was named after a drink,palm wine , made from the naturally fermented sap of the oil palm, which was drunk at gatherings where early African guitarists played.Palm-wine music was first popularized by
Ebenezer Calendar & His Maringar Band , who recorded many popular songs in the 1950s and early 1960s. Palm-wine music left an influence on many styles, especiallysoukous andhighlife . Though still somewhat popular, the genre is no longer as renowned as it once was. Other renowned Palm-wine musicians includeS. E. Rogie ,Daniel Amponsah ,Abdul Tee-Jay andSuper Combo .References
* [http://www.alisdair.com/africanpages/africanpalmwine.html A brief introduction to Palm Wine Music]
ee also
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Music of Sierra Leone
*Music of Liberia
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