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Rikki Ililonga

Rikki Ililonga

Rikki Ililonga has been played on NTS in shows including Tom Furse, featured first on 20 July 2015. Songs played include Sheebeen Queen, Love Is The Only Way and My Destiny.

Rikki Ililonga is a psychedelic rock musician who gained prominence as a member of the influential "Zamrock" band Musi-O-Tunya in the 1970's. While touring with Musi-O-Tunya, Ililonga rose to fame within the boundaries of his homeland, and soon branched out as a solo artist. Ililonga’s solo work shows an even more powerful, and at times more subdued side. The range is everything from Bob Dylan-esque folk tunes to fuzzy, psych rock tracks- no less impressive than anything Jimi Hendrix cranked out in his heyday. The songs, mostly in English, also contain passages in Silozi, Chinyanja and Ichibemba. In a country still emerging from the pressure of colonialism, this was an important proclamation of Zambian identity in the face of the once commonplace denigration of all things African.

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Rikki Ililonga

Rikki Ililonga has been played on NTS in shows including Tom Furse, featured first on 20 July 2015. Songs played include Sheebeen Queen, Love Is The Only Way and My Destiny.

Rikki Ililonga is a psychedelic rock musician who gained prominence as a member of the influential "Zamrock" band Musi-O-Tunya in the 1970's. While touring with Musi-O-Tunya, Ililonga rose to fame within the boundaries of his homeland, and soon branched out as a solo artist. Ililonga’s solo work shows an even more powerful, and at times more subdued side. The range is everything from Bob Dylan-esque folk tunes to fuzzy, psych rock tracks- no less impressive than anything Jimi Hendrix cranked out in his heyday. The songs, mostly in English, also contain passages in Silozi, Chinyanja and Ichibemba. In a country still emerging from the pressure of colonialism, this was an important proclamation of Zambian identity in the face of the once commonplace denigration of all things African.

Original source Last.fm

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Sheebeen Queen
Rikki Ililonga
Now-Again Records2010
Love Is The Only Way
Rikki Ililonga
Sepiso Records1976
My Destiny
Ricky Ililonga
Sepiso Records1977
Sunshine Queen
Ricky Ililonga (Detlef Degener, Rikki Ililonga mix)
WEA1978
Ulemu
Rikki Ililonga
Now-Again Records2010
Maloza
Rikki Ililonga
Sepiso Records0
The Hole
Rikki Ililonga
Now-Again Records2010