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...Reported by Peter Katel and Elaine Shannon
...music and global music aren't mutually exclusive categories. In the '80s Paul Simon, David Byrne and Peter Gabriel blended world beats. More recently, Sting scored a hit with Algerian rai star Cheb Mami, Lauryn Hill covered Bob Marley on MTV Unplugged, and Britney Spears has made a habit of working with Swedish songwriter Max Martin. Madonna, on her latest tour, drew from so many cultures for sonic and sartorial inspiration, it was a surprise Kofi Annan didn't join her for an encore...
...TOUGHEST In 1978 reggae star Peter Tosh and Mick Jagger record (You Gotta Walk and) Don't Look Back, a duet that the pair also performs on TV's Saturday Night Live, giving many Americans their first taste of authentic reggae...
...American chart topper by way of Japan. (For Bookman, even singing in Creole--which has periodically been outlawed in Haiti--is a political act.) Protest singers in Africa and the Caribbean have long preached a musical and lyrical Pan-Africanism, from Kuti's mondo-Afro beats back to Peter Tosh's 1977 rallying cry: "As long as you're a black man, you're an African...
...edge, and makes him so hard to stomach for most; instead it occasionally wanders into Radiohead territory. Her voice truly is an experience in itself—a gloriously wrecked set of pipes from the desolation of the moon, that at times has the gravely timbre of a suicidal Peter Gabriel. The lyrics are all of a piece with the music: “You’re all alone tonight” (“Strong”); “I know I can’t win” (“Treacherous Thing?...