by BANNING EYRE
August 04, 2014 4:18 PM ET
Somi is a jazz singer and songwriter currently based in New York City. Banning Eyre reviews her latest album, The Lagos Music Salon, a collection of songs composed while she lived in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Somi is an American jazz singer and songwriter. Her new release takes us to Lagos, Nigeria where she spent 18 months living and composing. Banning Eyre has this review of "the Lagos Music Salon" which begins where Somi's journey began.
BANNING EYRE: "The Lagos Music Salon" is partly about storytelling. Right at the start, we hear Somi going through immigration at the airport in Lagos at the start of her extended-stay.
SOMI: Somi.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Somi - music or fashion or?
SOMI: Music.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Music?
EYRE: Somi was born in Illinois to Rwandan and Ugandan parents. So Africa has always been part of her creative mix. After her father died a few years back, she decided to honor him by living for a time on the continent. The place she chose was Lagos, Nigeria, and urban crush of some 21 million people. She said it felt a bit like New York, a place where all sorts of cultures produced and the energy never lets up.
read more: http://www.npr.org/2014/08/04/337842958/album-review-the-lagos-music-salon?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=music
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