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About this product
Product Identifiers
Record LabelStern's Africa, Sfca
UPC0740042109124
eBay Product ID (ePID)12046037016
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year2000
GenreReggae
ArtistIsaac, Ismael
Release TitleBlack System
Dimensions
Item Height0.40 in
Item Weight0.25 lb
Item Length5.64 in
Item Width4.98 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks12
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Allah Dimina 1.2 Baramogo 1.3 Carte de Sejour 1.4 Vendeur D'armes 1.5 Black System 1.6 Samalah 1.7 Teri Djougou 1.8 Treich Feeling 1.9 Farafina 1.10 Sans Papiers 1.11 Korodjo 1.12 Tientigui
Notes2000 release. Ismaël Isaac was a 15-year-old growing up in a densely populated lower-working-class district of Abidjan, Ivory Coast, when Bob Marley died in 1981, and it was a defining moment for him; that was when, he recalls, "reggae became, defacto, a genre of African music." It was also when an older neighbor who called himself Alpha Blondy started singing reggae songs in local languages. And that's when Isaac made up his mind to be a reggae singer himself. With little more than faith in his talent, he managed to get himself on Ivorian radio and television and soon on records. Black System is his seventh album and his strongest. Listening to this, one might be convinced that reggae has been African music forever.