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Ishilove:
Naptu darling, can you help us get the 'Send down the rain' video?

CallMeNJay:
Can i see send down the rain

johnie:
I drew blanks searching for the video.

Can you dig it out?

While searching I found out Okosun had earlier been Sir Victor Uwaifo's band boy.

Remember King Pago who performed with Uwaifo and later Majek?

I see a thread in these. Do you?

Of course, the Bendel link is there.

I think there's some similarities in Uwaifo and Okosuns strings and percussion arrangements.

Majek had a peculiar percussion stlye - pangolo. Any link to Uwaifo or Okosun?

Funny thing is that Okosun is gone (physically), Majek is ...(I don't know what word to use) but their Baba (Uwaifo) is still very much around!

Okosun also had gigs with Fela and the Libitos.

johnie:
Thanks for the mention.

Majek oh Majek!

These videos bring tears to my eyes.

I was very happy for him when I saw the 'Majek Fashek in NY' video.

That joy turned sour when he returned.

The later release of 'Little Patience' raised some hope but it was not to last.

My thoughts and prayers are always with him.

His songs are very 'spiritual.'

He released 'Send down the rain' when I was writing major exams.

That song and 'Silver Shadow' by Atlantic Starr were what you could call my 'charge songs.'

I used to sing them to charge myself up when going to write the exams and they did wonders for me (of course I prepared adequately and God was on my side!)

Each time it was played by RN2 in the mornings before we set out for class, it would rain!

Within a week, my friends and I quickly took notice of this.

On another note, do you know he was a 'waka pass' character in one of Sunny Okosun's musical videos?

I can't remember the title of the song but the video begins with a classroom scene in which Sunny was in front of the class addressing (singing to) the people in the class.

After about a minute, they all pour out of the class singing and dancing.

Majek was one of the people in the class and his light complexioned skin stood him out.

He must have been what is today know as an 'upcoming artiste' or one of Okosuns's band boys at the time. Probably around 1987.

Do you know the video?

I'll try and recall the title of the song and probably get the video.

Junaknoni:
Please....i need help....who sang "Redemption song" first....Bob marley or Majek Fashek.....Cos...both has the same lyrics...

rennylaw:
@naptu2 , thanks for this thread. Can you help get this song.... mother show your smile , mama dede oyoyo....by Majek Fashek. I have searched for it on YouTube without success.

Thank you.

topsyking:
naptu.. can you help me find the real video of majek fashek inna new york.. i have looked for it for years.. one particular picture in the video remind me of somethings.. thanks in advance

Tracy Chapman and Majek Fashek, Wednesday at Poplar Creek:
May 29, 1992|By Chris Heim.



Don`t ever hope to be a critics’ darling. Sooner or later (usually around the third album), the very things that once were singled out for praise will be turned into weapons to smash your latest work into little bits. Chapman was everyone`s favorite a few years ago when she could be cast in the role of charming street-singing waif with a conscience, an authentic voice of the people whose spare folk songs and anger at injustice allowed pop music and its minions to bask in the glow of humanity and significance again.




Chapman hasn't changed all that much since then. She's actually a slightly better (i.e., more emotional and flexible) singer. Her songs are occasionally more pedantic than poetic, but they have always been. And now sometimes they are also more personal and revealing. (Hear, for example, the incisive "Matters of the Heart," the title track of her new album.) The only major difference is that the reception greeting her third record consists largely of sermons about the importance of artistic progress and a show of disdain that is usually reserved for animal-sacrificing, death-metal groups targeted by the PMRC.




Opening here is one of the most interesting new artists to emerge from the burgeoning African reggae scene. Unlike other highly praised African reggae artists such as Alpha Blondy or Lucky Dube, Fashek gives African influences (in this case, richly rhythmic and percussive Nigerian forms) a much larger and clearer role. His fusion of the classic reggae of Bob Marley and the innovative soul-Afrobeat of Nigeria's Fela (with much the same angry yet poetic social conscience both artists exhibit in their work) inserts the kind of sharp, smart and even stylish new energy into reggae that it has needed for some time.

Now now now now, Margaret Thatcher, hey hey hey, free Mandela,
Now now now now, George Bush, hey hey hey, free Mandela

Now now now now, Ai-kho-mu, hey hey hey, free Nigeria.
Now now now now, Ba-ban-gida, hey hey hey, free Nigeria.