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Seun Anikulapo Kuti
Born in 1983, Seun first began performing with Egypt 80 at the age of nine, warming up audiences...
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Afro Funké Presents DJ Lady Sha + The Ava Nahas Percussion Ensumble + Seun Kuti Listening Party!
Thursday, July 21 2011
Zanzibar, Santa Monica CA


event description
A turntablist, musician, vocalist, and first female to win the annual Winter Music Conference DJ Spin-off in WMC history (Miami 2008), Lady Sha continues to return home to LA. A citizen of the globe as reflected in her eclectic DJ sets, she spins heated hip hop fused with electro, soul, rock, house, reggae, & global sounds, moving dance floors worldwide. One of the few female DJ's to have rocked parties in Jamaica & the first female DJ to spin live on South African radio airwaves (2004), Lady Sha innovates the music & nightlife industries universally.

Download her latest mix CD

Plus a very special LIVE performance by the The Ava Nahas World Percussion Ensemble!

Also there will be a very special listening party for the brand new Seun Kuti album From Africa With Fury: Rise. For anyone who missed his amazing show at Grand Performances on Friday, July 15, come down early and check this album, win some giveaways and support "original African music!"

DJ Jeremy Sole will be back from his European Tour!

The weekly club Afro Funké is the brainchild of African Afro Roots Reggae star, Rocky Dawuni, who realized LA's need for a night dedicated to African music, culture and art and it's far reaching legacy around the world. Dawuni, who's based in LA and his native Ghana, together with producer and photographer Cary Sullivan created Afro Funké, bringing on board resident DJ and partner Jeremy Sole's Musaics. Each week Afro Funké presents guest DJs, live performances, dancers, record release parties, fundraisers, art installations, crafts and more while Sole spins his unique Musaics, or sound collage-blends of hip hop, jazz/funk, dub reggae, afro beat, and remixed world beats; pieced together with tribal breaks, and uplifted by dubbed-out turntable manipulation and live instrumentation.

DJ Lady Shaw  |  Afro Funké  |  Afro Funké Myspace  |  The Ava Nahas Percussion Ensemble
ticket information
9 PM - 2 AM

$7 before 10:30 PM - $10 after

21+ w/ID



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Zanzibar
1301 5th Ave (at Arizona)
Santa Monica, CA 90401
ph 310-451-2221
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