Ella andall biography
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Biography
Sat-Nam….Ella is the most powerful Warrior Queen/Keeper of Afrika in our Hearts/Minds/Souls/Spirits/Collective Consciousness/Bodies..un-ashamedly!!! She resides in Arima,Rep. Of Trinidad And Tobago. Check…www.ellaandall.com for more info.Ase! Sathari/Val.
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Ase, Mama: Coffee break Africanness, Ella Andall—unplugged
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Upbeat | Music Reviews (September/October 2000)
Pick of the Month
Bring Down the Power by Ella Andall
Ella Andall’s music is closer in spirit to the African protest sound of singers like Miriam Makeba than to that of most of her musical compatriots in Trinidad and Tobago. The Afrocentric strain in Trinidadian music — normally hybridised, in mainstream calypso and soca, with elements from jazz, R&B, pop, reggae and dancehall — has been growing more prominent, and Andall, born in Grenada, has been a big part of that process. The movement towards Africa has produced radical changes in both music and subject matter, and Bring Down the Power is a good example of the new trends. In the music, the African drum dominates; thematically, there’s what the rapso movement calls “the rhythm of the word in the power of the word,” a deep-seated belief in the transcendental potency of the spoken word, especially when chanted against a rhythm – a far cry from the word-play and sexual innuendo of calypso. With its themes of protest and social change and religious transcendence, this is music for more serious times.
Andall’s songs confront the harsh realities of Afro-Caribbean life head-on, without irony, using the weapons of love and music and Orisha,