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Jamaican Reggae Singer
Performs in City Friday
Reggae artist Burning Spear,
described as "the cultural ambas
sador who delivers his message in
his music," will perform at Ziggy's
at 433 Baity St this Friday.
Burning Spear, a..ka. Winston
Rodney, began his career in 1969
when he was introduced by Bob
Mariey to the Studio One label. In
the 1970*s, following his stint at
Studio One, the singer released
Marcus Garvey, Man In The Hills
and Garvey' s Ghost on Island
Records. These and other record
ings firmly established the
Jamaican musician as an interna
tional artist
In 1984, Burning Spear
received his first of four Grammy
nominations for his album Resis
tance. His achievements include
winning the Martin's International
Reggae Award in 1991 for Most
Educational Entertainer o^the
1980s and being awarded Best
Reggae Album at the NAIRD Indie
Awards in 1992.
Spear's most recent album,
The World Should Know , on the
Heartbeat label, features 10
arranged songs from the singer and
his Burning Band, including the
single and video "Mi Gi Dem," "In
a Time Like Now," "I Stand
Strong," "Peace," and the title cut,
"The World Should Know." The
album, heralded as Spear's greatest
recording to date, is the singer's
first release of new material in two
years.
Burning Spear will perform at Ziggy's this Friday.
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Top South African Reggae Star Performs at Local Club
By SABRINA JONES
Cknmklt Stiff Writer
If you do not recognize the
name Lucky Dube, chances axe you
will soon be hearing much more
about South Africa's most popular
- singer. The talented musician per
formed June 9 at Ziggy's Tavern,
? located at 433 Baity St.
Dube (pronounced "doo-bay"),
South Africa's biggest-selling artist
in history, was born in the impover
ished town of Ermelo. In 1979 he
began his musical career as a singer
of Zulu "mbaqanga" music. He
made the transition to reggae in
1984 with his first reggae album,
Rastas Never Die. Because of the
album's criticism of the country's
apartheid system, its release was
banned and, subsequently, received
little airplay inside or outside South
Africa.
Despite this setback, Dube's
second album, Think About the
Children , went gold in South
Africa, prompting Gallo Records to
promote the singer's third release,
Slave. The album has sold 500,000
copies since its 1987 release, mak
ing itthebiggesl selling record,
local or international, in South
African history.
Dube's success continued with
last year's House of Exile , which
ranked No.?4 on Billboard maga
zine's year-end 1992 chart of Top
World Music Artists and was
recently named the Best Reggae
Album by the National Association
of Independent Record Distributors
and Manufacturers (NAIRD). In
1991, his first concert album, Lucky
Lucky Dube
Dube Captured Live , received the
Oktave Award, the South African
equivalent of a Grammy, for Record
of the Year. Dube routinely sells a
quarter-million units of every album
he releases, according to label esti
mates.
. With his new pop-oriented
album, Victims , Dube is attempting
to appeal to a mainstream audience.
The album was co-produced by
British producer Simon Law,
known for his work with R&B
group, Soul II Souk ?
The release of Victims coin
cides with Dube's U.S. 35-city sum
mer tour, which began June 1. The
U.S. tour will continue through
Aug. 1, ending in Los Angeles.
With the release of Victims , the
Rastafarian singer, known to many
as "Africa's Peter Tosh,** may soon
attain the astounding success and
popularity that he currently com
mands in his native troubled land.
Hal (Ted Damon) and Sarah (Whoopt Goldberg) argue over parenting
methods in " Made in America a Warner Bros, release.
"Made in America" Proves
Love Can Transcend Race
By SABR1NA JONES
Ckrtmiclt Suff Writer
When Sarah Matthews
(Whoopi Goldberg) visited the
sperm bank 17 years ago, she
requested the specimen of a "black,
smart, not-too-talP donor. Little did
she know that the bank would ful
fill only one of her requirements,
neither one being black nor smart
This is the premise of the com
edy "Made in America," starring
Goldberg as the zany proprietor of
an Afrocentric bookstore who
shockingly discovers that the bio
logical father of her 17-year-old
daughter, Zora, (Nia Long of "Boyz
in the Hood") is a white, not-so
smart air salesman.
After realizing that her moth
ers late husband could not be her
father, Zora Matthews (Long), a
gifted science student, uses the
sperm bank's computer to uncover
the identity of her real father, Hal
"Hal's your pal" Jackson (Ted Dan
son), the owner of Jackson Motors.
Most of the film's comedic
charm comes from the cultural dif
ferences between Sarah and Hal. At
one point, Hal says, when he visits
Sarah's bookstore, "I read black
authors, you know. Wilt Chamber
lain changed my life.** After dis
carding their initial hostility toward
each other, the romantic chemistry
between Goldberg and Danson is as
convincing on-screen as it is
allegedly off-screen.
"Made in America" features
many humorous scenes, such' as
Jackson's idiotic T.V. commercials
with animals, of which one culmi
nates in a hilarious confrontation
between Goldberg and a gigantic
elephant
The film also stars Will Smith
("The Prince of Bel Air"), who
adds his own engaging charm as
Zora's friend, "Tea Cake" Walters.
"Made in America" is a lively,
touching movie that shows that
interracial love can indeed tran
scend cultural boundaries.
MOVIE REVIEW
"Made In America"
Rated- PG 13
Worth the money
Showing at
Market Place Six
North Point Five
Profanity
adult situations
DISTINCTIVE
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