- Zoblazo
Zoblazo is a musical style from Abidjan, Cote D'Ivoire, first created in the early 1990s.
Zoblazo is a cosmpolitan popular dance music with simple up-tempo rhythm and high tech instrumentation and contains a mixture of traditional dance rhythms from southern Cote D'Ivoire.
Its best known exponent is
Meiway , who has released a series of Zoblazo records starting in 1989 with the record "Ayibebou" with his groupZo Gang . An ethnicN'Zema fromGrand Bassam , Meiway integrated folk rhythms from Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana with and is danced to with a white handkerchief.From his second album in 1990 entitled "200% Zoblazo", Meiway became the second best known Ivorian musician after
Alpha Blondy , and has released a steady stream records, the most recent "9ème commandement –900% zoblazo" released in 2007.References
* [http://www.rfimusique.com/siteEn/biographie/biographie_6171.asp RFI Musique: Meiway Biography] , January 2007.
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond/africaonyourstreet/cdreviews/246/17892.shtml Review Meiway - Golgotha (800% Zoblazo)] : Africa On Your Street, BBC.co.uk.
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/africabeyond/africaonyourstreet/hosts/jjc/17925.shtml Meiway from Ivory Coast, JJC Reviews] , May 2006: Africa On Your Street, BBC.co.uk.
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