February 2012
6 posts
KUKU on RFI Couleurs Tropicales
Listen to KUKU performing live on RFI (Radio France International)- Couleurs Tropicales with Ephrem YOUKPO
http://www.rfi.fr/taxonomy/emission/112
"SOLDIER OF PEACE"
13 February 2012, today marks the official digital release of my new album, Soldier of Peace (. It has truly being a long and interesting road, and by the look of things the road ahead looks quite further. I’ve travelled the seas, giving up a lot so that this work can be heard, and perhaps, be a greater good in lives of those who hear it. Now the wait is over, the dissemination of peace...
KUKU in February 2012 issue of Vibrations Magazine
As Vibrations Music is French publication, I took the liberty to offer you a English translation of the article below. Nevertheless, I still recommend you pick up physical copy if you can. You will find KUKU on pages 11, 29, and 57.
The “Buffalo Soldier” of Marley was ” brought to America “. Kuku inverts the trend today. Born in the US, brought up in Nigeria, KUKU later...
January 2012
4 posts
I wish you ...
The older I get the less regards I have conventionalism…New Years, Christmas’, and all the other… Honesty and integrity in Music, Love, Peace, Happiness, and Compassion just about sums up all my cares. With that said, In honesty, I won’t wish you a happy new year but rather I wish you another HAPPY-GIFTED-DAWN we live to APPRECIATE our commonness within our illusionary...
December 2011
2 posts
KUKU at Le China, Paris Tonight
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November 2011
5 posts
KUKU at Le baroc, Paris Tonight
If you are fortunate to be in Paris area tonight, there are few good places to be. Hard to be believe, but my most unbiased recommendation is a intimate little places in corridor of belleville called Le Baroc (Le baroc, 36, rue de Sambre et Meuse - 75010 Paris M° Belleville).
Their has been rumors that certain Yoruba man by the way of Washington DC is casting positive vibrations there, curious?...
“You know you are up to something great when your integrity is pure yet you...”
– KUKU
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October 2011
3 posts
KUKU: Upcoming October 2011 Paris Dates
OCT/06/2011 - MAD’MOIZELLES @ MIZMIZ CAFE, PARIS FR
OCT/14/2011 - MIZZ AJAHLOVE @ MIZMIZ CAFE, PARIS FR
OCT 21, 2011 - CHINA CLUB, PARIS FR
OCT/22/2011 - GOUTTE DE TERRE, PARIS FR
OCT/28/2011 - SCOPCLUB /SCOPITONE PARIS FR
Hope to see you at there. A bientot
September 2011
4 posts
KUKU at SATELLIT Café, Paris Tomorrow
KUKU en Concert a le SATELLIT Café, Demain, Vendredi, 30 Septembre, 2011. 20h
La paix, l’amour et de dernières nouvelles, j’espère que vos plans de vendredi soir ne sont pas solides encore ? Pourquoi ? Ceci est juste entré “KUKU à SATELLIT Café” demain, vendredi, le 31 septembre 2011 8pm Peace, love and latest news, I hope your friday evening plans is not...
“Passion often leads a man to give up his conveniences to find convenience in...”
– KUKU
“Peace, love and Good day world, We again are the chosen ones to see...”
– KUKU
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THEORY OF COMPASSION
I’m spending the evening contemplating goodness and evil in correlation with compassion. I think it safe to say one of prominent essence of evil is the lack of compassion, it never hesitate to attack and destroy whenever the occasion permits. Goodness however is simply compassion in manifestation. Goodness is merciful, I like to think if you give goodness a million chances to exterminate...
August 2011
8 posts
T.ROY featuring KUKU on Bush Meat
Check out the brand new album, Bush Meat, by UK/Ghanaian Afro-fusion DJ, producer of sound bridger, T.Roy Broadcite. The album’s premier track “Polongo” features a collaboration with KUKU.
Limited edition CD copies of Bush Meat are now available at UK’s Juno Records. Thank for supporting great independent music.
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KUKU Trivia: The Legend of The Soldier of Peace
(1800) Balogun Bello Kuku was an liberal and accomplished Ijebu warrior and businessman who was involved in major events concerning war and peace in Ijebuland during the latter part of the nineteenth century. He was also a controversial figure to some Ijebus especially during the state’s conflict with Ibadan.
Kuku, an Ijebu man originally enjoyed commercial success in Ibadan selling arms in...
2 More Show in Central Italy this Month
I will be playing in Pesaro Italy tonight. Tomorrow’s show got a quite a buzz around it. According to the promoter, Sir Kruger, a certain Nigerian American singer reminiscent of “Ben Harper and Tracy Chapman” is suppose to be bringing some afro soulful roots healing to gorgeous seasides of Capannina di Portonovo tomorrow Aug 19, 2011.
...
July 2011
3 posts
KUKU @ LIVE ON THE WOODROW WILSON PLAZA, DC, USA
KUKU last concert in Washington DC for another long while is on Friday July 29th at 12pm at Live on The Woodrow Wilson Plaza Summer Concert series. If you happen to make a living in the NW Washington DC corridor, or find yourself wondering around the area on the noon on July 29th the stop by Live on The Woodrow Wilson Plaza.
We heard a certain Mr. Obama will taking a break from the affairs of...
KUKU at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Green...
The world of South African Township sounds meets Yoruba Soulful Roots as the duo of KUKU and South African guitar virtuoso Mongezi Ntaka performs at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s Green Show tonight 7.15pm July 5th 2011, a second performance is schedule for 7.15pm Thursday July 7th 2011.
Visit the green Show website at http://www.osfashland.org/browse/production.aspx?prod=157
June 2011
4 posts
“Some say I’m way too grateful
For I bow in gratitude
Perhaps I’m...”
– KUKU
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“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
– John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680
“I don’t make music for anybody, I make music for everybody.”
– KUKU
KUKU at Teavolve, Baltimore, Maryland on Saturday...
Over the past 6 months, KUKU has been spreading worldwide love crusade in Paris and other major cities across Europe. On Saturday June 4th, he return to the USA Baltimore MD’s TEAVOLVE for evening to remember.
Tell a friend, a family member or just simply bring yourself to TEAVOLVE. Reservation available now at www.teavolve.com or 410.522.1907.
Visit...
May 2011
21 posts
“I wonder what would happen sometimes if the disc jockeys started to play an...”
– Abbey Lincoln
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The Cure for a € !!!
Ones described “The African Music Medicine Man” KUKU, might as well be the pharmaceutical companies worst nightmare. Before you take our word for it, Click on the “Buy” button below and experience The Cure, the 3 song single from upcoming LP Soldier of Peace (BÁLÓGŪN ÌRÒRÙN).
<a href=”http://kukulive.bandcamp.com/album/the-cure-single”...
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“It’s okay to head out for wonderful, but on your way to wonderful, you...”
– Bill Wither
“We never want for nothing, Mama worked so hard to provide
But like a child we...”
– KUKU (From “Yeye”, Soldier of Peace | BÁLÓGŪN ÌRÒRÙN)
“There are people who live their whole lives on the default settings, never...”
– Robert Brault
“I believe nothing is true
Everything is invented
Every truth was once an...”
– KUKU
“Note to self: finding a cool quote and writing it in your journal is not a...”
– Betsy Cañas Garmon
KUKU- BLACK MAN →
BLACK MAN from the album Soldier of Peace (BÁLÓGŪN ÌRÒRÙN). Coming September 2011
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of...”
– Frederick Douglass
The Cure for €1 EUR
The Cure is the Inspirational first single from KUKU’s latest album Soldier of Peace (BÁLÓGŪN ÌRÒRÙN), slated for release in September 2011.
The song was inspired by KUKU’s encounter with a little boy who was diagnosed with cancer around 2006. Although the young fighter later passed away in 2010, KUKU recalls little the boy’s spirit as he did not let illness define him, he...