Act Against Injustice – New York
Nov 13, 2011 Beyond The Music, Worthy Charities
Last night’s interview with Ambassador to AAI (Act Against Injustice) was a great start to increasing awareness about Child Trafficking. We received an email from Executive Director John Wearne,
thanking us for doing the interview with Tommie and sharing more details about the Concert that is to take place in New York on January 6, 2012. We are sharing that information with you as well as a link to keep updated on developments.
Child Trafficking Awareness Concert New York, USA
Act Against Injustice is now pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Child Trafficking Awareness Concert in Buffalo, New York, US on the evening of January 6, 2012
The Concert will be held at The Riviera Theater in North Tonawanda, New York and the headline artist is Lenny Revell (Michael Douglas once proclaimed “his voice is amazing, and his piano skills are kickass!”) He will be performing a set piece on a 7.6 foot Concert Grand Piano too.
There will be a guest speakers from Act Against Injustice and Nationally recognized Anti-Trafficking experts as well as a voice-over from acclaimed Blues artist and AAI Ambassador Tommie Brewster
Other Performing artist include Electroacoustic singer, songwriter Robert Robinson (AAI CEO and guest artists Jill Towers, Jack Fowler (whose track Caliente was recorded by Niam Thomas and went to #1 in Europe and Mexico) and many more artists. Executive Director of Act Against Injustice John Wearne and our special guest speaker, and trainer to the NYPD, Dottie Laster.
Additionally, we’ll also be using a piece of music for our intro to the concert written a few years ago by top international artist Gary Numan.
We will also announce a lucky ticket holder and winner of a $1000 prize.
We are pushing ahead with our Isaiah 1:17 mandate and we are calling on New York to step forward in faith and email us info@actagainstinjustice.org if you would like to be considered for involvement in the evening.
If you would like to be part of team AAI, or even challenge AAI themselves, then just send us an email.
We are also looking for volunteers, faith based organizations, schools and community groups on the East Coast USA to help us create that awareness to help trafficked children, some as young as 5 years old, escape from slavery and abuse networks.
Let us know if you can support AAI with volunteers for promotion, marketing and on the evening, join us, for the children, in creating a memorable evening that may stir a passion in you that you never knew you had.
United against trafficking!
Tags: children, encouragement, fundraiser, giving back, motivation, music, protection, World
Jo Tongo
Feb 28, 2010 Home Page
JO TONGO was born and raised in DOUALA (CAMEROON), West Africa. His mother has a lot of sons and daughters but Jo is the elder brother. The father is a notary and also a good violin and up straight bass player. JO was surrounded with music since his mother belly cause his grand grandfather, the Reverend Alfred TONGO DIBOUNDOU use to play organ in the church he was preaching. At the age of 13, JO TONGO was granted with an acoustic guitar by one of his uncles and started studying how to play by himself. He found his way by using a guitar book since he was able to read and write music. Matter of fact, JO learned elementary music theory at the high school, and was always the best on this matter. At the age of 15, he joined the high school band as guitarist and two years after became the band leader. That happened in YAOUNDE, the capital. At the same time, JO set up his first band in DOUALA with his young friends, the ROCK’N CHACH, mixing up African, Caribbean and American soul music and started writing his own compositions, sounding different from the other bands. JO recorded this music at the Cameroonian radios both in DOUALA and YAOUNDE. There was no recording studio in CAMEROON those days. JO gained his elder musicians consideration and started playing with them. Since he became without doubt the best guitar player of his country. To prevent him from winning the bands competition organized by the head of state of the moment, JO TONGO was sent to Paris by his father. The latter did not want his son to become a professional musician. In Paris, JO studied pharmacy for two years, but was obliged to stop cause of his father’s problems with the Cameroonian government. At the same time, Jo was learning classic piano. He obtained the first degree of piano of Paris national superior academy of music. Then he changed for accountancy for two years. Jo worked three years as an accountant, and then he decided to become a professional musician. JO TONGO started playing with the best musicians in Paris, like Manu DIBANGO, Françis BEBEY, Joseph KABASSELE, and Franklyn BOKAKA. He was involved in the main recording sessions in studio with African and European artists. In 1966, Gerard AKUESON gave JO opportunity to make his first record. JO played what we could call world-music today. From his second record, JO turned to a kind of Afro funk music, very original and exciting, mixing up African sound and American Rhythm and blues. Jo was given the battle name of JOJO L’EXPLOSIF (JOJO THE EXPLOSIVE). In 1968, after he recorded his second record (GET IT THE WAY I LIKE & NON NON NON); the young artist was invited to a concert in the “SALONS DES AMBASSADEURS” in the “CHAMPS ELYSEES” in Paris. The main African and Caribbean artists had to perform in front of all the ambassadors of Paris. Manu DIBANGO’s band had to back all of them. But for some unknown reason, DIBANGO refused to back JOJO. After a lot of arguments, he accepted. But instead of singing two songs like everyone, Jo was allowed to sing only one song. After performing GET IT THE WAY I LIKE, the public made a standing ovation to JOJO and asked him to sing another song. The artist turned to the musicians and said: I’VE BEEN LOVING YOU. JO performance was simply wonderful. Gisèle BAKA, a Caribbean singer and manager came to congratulate the young man. Then she invited JOJO to another concert she organized in “OLYMPIA” in Paris, two months later, in commemoration of Doctor Martin Luther KING Jar death. DIBANGO started the same problems again, saying that if JOJO is there, he would not come. A lot of artists decided not to be there if JOJO is absent. This time JO sang a single song. The public delighted and excited was waiting for another one. The young man just came back on stage for a reverence. A star was born. As a music director and conductor, JOJO made beautiful arrangements for other artists as UTA BELLA and Manu DIBANGO. Jo took lessons of classic orchestration and arrangements with VLADIMIR KODJOUKAROV, the conductor of the French National Classic Orchestra. (Orchestra National de Paris). JO TONGO became the most popular African artist. He played for African heads of states like NYASSIBWE EYADEMA of TOGO, YAKUBU GOWON of NIGERIA, MOBUTU SESE SEKO of ZAIRE (Democratic Republic of CONGO), AHMADOU AHIDJO of United Republic of CAMEROON, Prince ALBERT II of MONACO. The artists that brought JO to higher audience are the American pianist and singer MEMPHIS SLIM, the King of BOOGIE WOOGIE and MIKE BRANT, a singer from ISRAEL who became a legend in France.
In 1976, after performing in MIDEM (Cannes) JO TONGO created a new band he called TUMBALO. Patrick, Alex and Chris FRANCFORT (now called THE GIBSON BROTHERS) asked JO to become members of his new band. Vicky EDIMO who heard about this asked JO to join the group, what was done.
TUMBALO recorded 10 songs for DECCA, but for some unknown reasons, this record never came out in time so that the FRANCFORT brothers decide to follow their own way. They were right.
JO TONGO has one of his music used in a French movie called “FEMME DE SA VIE” with the famous French actress Emmanuelle BEART. Later on, he was asked for music for an American movie: NEVER EVER with a well-known French actress SANDRINE BONNAIRE.
Nowadays JO TONGO added REGGAE MUSIC to his influences. He backed KY-MANI MARLEY (one of the BOB MARLEY’s sons) who came to Cannes Festival (of Cinema) for the movie he produced, ONE LOVE, in 2004. With a help of Claudine DE JESUS COSTA, JO TONGO who also made cinema studies in Cannes created RISIN’SUN to promote afro music and movies.
His last CD, JO TONGO ( JOJO L’EXPLOSIF) GREAT HITS and the video clips for this album are RISIN’ SUN productions with a help of AURORE PRODUCTION.
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Check out Jo Tongo’s MySpace page
Tags: composer, funk, happy, Jazz, music, Old School, Reggae, RnB, Uplifting, vintage, World, writer
Cashbook Clique
Feb 11, 2010 Today's Stars
Biography:
Cashbook Clique
CashBook Clique a group of fascinating individuals was born in late 2008.
The group consists of three individuals, Dwayne AKA “Keez”, Andrew AKA “Bin-Law” Ricardo AKA “Scaffle” and Ainsley “Khani” Smith.
The music performed by the three can easily be described as a true blend of Dancehall Reggae and Hip Hop two of worlds leading genre’s of music.
Since the formation of CashBook Clique in 2008 Bin-Law, Scaffle,Khani and Keez have employed their ingenuity and street smarts to establish for themselves a vehicle in the form of their very own record label (also registered in late 2008)Street Dream Records to get their music out to the public.
The music “clever rhymes wrapped around ear pleasing beats” are all written and the music composed by the trio.
Operating from their home Base in Buff Bay Portland the group has been successful in putting out what they consider as their introduction to the music scene an album titled Ghetto Genesis Volume 2 which is presently being digitally distributed by CD Baby.com and is being sold on Amazon, itunes and Rhapsody just to name a few.
This the group considers to be a strong move as Ghetto Genesis Vol. 2 has had songs downloaded as far away as Japan and have gotten airplay from quite a few Radio stations and Podcasts in America and England (and the number rises by the day).Many of these have branded the music of the group as “some of the best to be exported from Jamaica (Jamrock) thus far”.
In addition to being played on overseas radio the group has recently had one of their tracks titled “Rise” played on Hitz 92 FM a radio station based in Jamaica and the response to the song has been a promising one as scores of CashBook Clique fans have expressed their joy in hearing the group on Jamaican radio.
A recent review of the groups musical efforts was done by Soundline Magazine an on line magazine based in Canada.
In this review which can be viewed online by going to www.soundline.ca the group was commended for the way in which they brought the 2 genre’s of music that they do together while maintaining a Jamaican feel to their music .
In addition to these accomplishments the group has recently done a music video for what they consider their title track “Street Dreaming” which has become a fixture on local channels in Portland Jamaica and has been played quite a few times on RE TV one of Jamaica’s biggest entertainment channels.
The quartet of CashBook Clique is poised to do great things in the music industry at large and are working full time to see their dream of becoming household names for music in Jamaica and the world come through.
For further information on CashBook Clique please visit www.streetdreamrecords.com or contact Dwayne Valentine @ vdwayne67@yahoo.com or Cashbookkeez@gmail.com or call Dwayne Valentine @ 1-876-996-1870 or 1-876-892-3490
CashBook Clique
http://www.streetdreamrecords.com
Location: Buff Bay, Portland, Jamaica
