“A wonderful energy.” King Charles pays tribute to Bob Marley in The King’s Music RoomA program broadcast this Monday, March 10 in Apple Music in which it presents a list of songs that marked their life.
COULD YOU BE LOVEDOne of the reggae legend classics that died in 1981 at the age of 36, appears on the reproduction list of King Charles. The musicians of the Royal Guard interpret the piece in a sequence of the program, then Charles III evokes their meeting with “The Great Man in Person.”
“I remember when he came to London to act, when I was much younger, and I met him in an event.
“This wonderful and contagious energy that he had, of course, but also his deep participation for his community. I always remember his words:” People in an inner voice. “He gave this voice to the world in such a way that anyone who listened to it can never forget it.”
Jamaica is one of the 14 kingdoms of the Commonwealth, in addition to the United Kingdom, with countries such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which have the King of England as head of state. Commonwealth also has member countries that have no King Charles for the head of state. Among them, South Africa, Malawi Bangladesh, Togo or Ghana.
From Kylie Minogue to Daddy Lumba
The 76 -year -old king joined Forces with Apple to record a program in his office at Buckingham Palace, in which he shared his preferred songs by artists from Commonwealth countries on the occasion of the Commonwealth Day on Monday.
Also from the Caribbean, Charles chose Millie Small’s world tube My Lollipop boy in 1964 and Hot hot hot Of the artist Arrow, from the island of Montserrat.
Also talk about that The locomotiveof the Australian Kylie Minogue, The other way around Diana Ross or Crazy in love By Beyoncé: These last two, however, not the Commonwealth.
The monarch explains that he discovered the high life, Ghana’s music and his desire to “dance in this exciting rhythm” during his first visit to this African country in the 1970s.
“During my last visit to Ghana in 2018, I found myself dancing in the next song, which is Daddy Lumba, which is considered by some as the biggest musician” in the country, he added before launching ‘Mpempem do me’.
“Something irresistible in the music of the 1920s”
In a more melancholic note, the playlist also contains The same thought of you From the singer of the 1930s to Bowlly. “For me, there is something irresistible in the music of the 1920 and 1930 decades that reminds me of my grandmother (editor’s note, Queen Mother, who disappeared in 2002) was so loved. She was used to playing this type of music very often,” said the king.
The playback also includes La Vie in Rose played by the Jamaican star Grace Jones, Love me again Of the popular British artist Raye, composer and interpreter of Jazz and R&B crowned with six British awards last year.
Then it comes Kante by the Nigerian artist Davido, The click song By Miriam Makeba, My field man by Jools Holland and Ruby Turner, Indian summer from anoushka Shankar, Permana Anta from Siti Nurheiza, E IWI E of Kiri Te Kanawa and I have not yet put you By Michael Buble.
Source: BFM TV
