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Sinkane’s New World: The Sudanese-American Musician Talks New ‘We Belong’ LP & Honoring the Black Musical Diaspora
To soundtrack the current sociopolitical moment, Sinkane visited the '70s -- from funk music to the Black Arts Movement. Read his Billboard interview.
At a brisk 10 tracks, the ‘70s funk-rooted record pulls together a bevy of standout vocalists including Osborne, Stout, Hollie Cook and Bilal for a journey through the sounds of quiet storm, Afrobeats, reggae, jazz, gospel and disco. It was through this self-work that Sinkane could built the community he needed to create an album dedicated to collective freedom in the spirit of the interconnected poetic works of Black Arts Movement writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Nikki Giovanni and Audre Lorde. It connected me to Stout, Tru Osborne, Casey Benjamin, Kenyatta Beasley, Hollie Cook, Corey Wallace and Sheddrick Mitchell — all these really amazing Black artists who were able to help me make it about all of us together.
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