Bizarre story: at some point in the 1930s or 1940s, a missionary came upon a Kipsigi village in Kenya and decided to introduce the natives to American music, and one they really latched onto was a singer called Jimmie Rodgers:
I don't know exactly what songs the missionary played for the Kipsigi, but they were convinced that this could not be a mere human singing like that. They came to the conclusion that he was a spirit, half-human, half-antelope. They also wrote their own songs to the spirit Chemirocha, including this one recorded by Hugh Tracy, the man who brought the Kalimba to the west:
And 65 years later, it got turned into a pop song:
I don't know exactly what songs the missionary played for the Kipsigi, but they were convinced that this could not be a mere human singing like that. They came to the conclusion that he was a spirit, half-human, half-antelope. They also wrote their own songs to the spirit Chemirocha, including this one recorded by Hugh Tracy, the man who brought the Kalimba to the west:
And 65 years later, it got turned into a pop song:
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
I was born with the gift of laughter and a sense the world is mad.
