African music Quote by Jain

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the…

— Isaac Hayes

My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.

— Jain

Growing up, my grandma was at home with us and there was a strong Afrobeat culture, she'd play all the riddims, and my music…

— Raye

I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats,…

— Mabel

My mum used to play afrobeats, my dad used to play Caribbean, my sisters and brothers played hip-hop.

— J Hus

I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.

— Jack Bruce

What I love about African-African music is how unselfconscious it is in so many ways.

— St. Lucia

Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up…

— St. Lucia

I was raised with a lot of music around me at all times.

— Bea Miller

So much music in Africa was created for specific moments, written for rituals or for a funeral or for challenges, thousands of years ago,…

— Ludwig Goransson

My dad played music so I was around it at a really young age.

— Shawna Thompson

My first memory of playing music was when I was 3 years old in Puerto Rico. I played percussion on a tin can behind…

— Jose Feliciano