Gnonnas Pedro

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La Musica en Vérité 07:11 Tools
okpo videa bassouo 03:55 Tools
Dark as a Dungeon 07:18 Tools
DaDJe Von O Von 03:54 Tools
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El Cochechivo 08:36 Tools
La Musica En Verité 07:10 Tools
Agrefeso 06:42 Tools
La Musica En Verite (Benin) 07:11 Tools
Ngbahanovo 07:06 Tools
Oh Que Le Temps Passe 04:55 Tools
Orêdigbin 05:05 Tools
La Musica En Verite 04:38 Tools
Abigbedoto 04:30 Tools
Lo Meyor De Mi Treinta Años 04:38 Tools
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Cicibilici 07:44 Tools
Etrococo Masawenin 04:50 Tools
African Solidarity 05:52 Tools
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Ketukuba 05:33 Tools
Agbadja Moderne 08:26 Tools
Musiclinique 04:48 Tools
Ma Wanwo 03:40 Tools
Ne Tuez Pas La Liberté 06:00 Tools
Maria Elena 07:08 Tools
Gnonnas Pedro 05:14 Tools
Irma Koï 04:59 Tools
La Combinacion de Gnonnas 08:02 Tools
Bon Anniversaire 03:22 Tools
How Much Love Naturaly Coast 06:11 Tools
Agbefêso 06:46 Tools
I Got You 03:22 Tools
Gbêto Eno Mon 04:16 Tools
Les Commedies 06:46 Tools
Manzanilio 06:28 Tools
Kandevie 06:31 Tools
Africa Tei Cuba 07:12 Tools
La Musica En Veritie 07:10 Tools
Atimawuin Dagamasi 06:02 Tools
Azo N'kplon Doun Nde 04:53 Tools
Perfida 07:29 Tools
J'ai aimé 18:18 Tools
Assiove 18:18 Tools
Sweet Combine 07:00 Tools
Yiri Yiri Boum - Gnonnas Pedro 05:05 Tools
Kalapchap 18:18 Tools
Don't Beat The Time 07:00 Tools
Azo Nkplon 05:11 Tools
Mid'ho Miton 03:51 Tools
How much love naturally cost? 06:16 Tools
A Ma Fille 07:12 Tools
Hommage aux Douaniers 09:57 Tools
Etrocco Mansawenim 07:00 Tools
Yo Preforo et Son Montuno 05:01 Tools
L'Indomptable Gnonnas Pop (Bénin-1974) 07:10 Tools
How Much Love Naturally Cost 05:12 Tools
Avivogdbe 09:57 Tools
Oumako (Agbadja) 09:57 Tools
Sweet Comoine HIghlife 07:10 Tools
El Perfidia 07:24 Tools
Azodogbewou 07:24 Tools
Africa Tel Cuba 14:14 Tools
Manbonweo 07:10 Tools
Azo N'Kplan Doun Nde 07:10 Tools
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Massaniyo 14:14 Tools
Las Melodias 06:15 Tools
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Pefridio 05:12 Tools
Ama Fille 03:36 Tools
Lo mejor de mi treinta años 04:38 Tools
Oumako 09:57 Tools
Nfilinwe 03:36 Tools
Manzanillo 06:19 Tools
La Combinacion 04:35 Tools
Filinwe [Bénin] 05:17 Tools
Irma Koi 05:02 Tools
AGBEFESO 05:02 Tools
Les Femmes D'Abord 10:05 Tools
Yo Prefeid el Son 03:36 Tools
How Much Love Naturaly Cost 06:15 Tools
Yiri Yiri Boum-Gnonnas Pedro 05:12 Tools
Noudle Chim'Gbe 05:02 Tools
Hommage au douaniers 03:36 Tools
Feso Yaye 05:02 Tools
Ahue Viode 03:36 Tools
Gnonnas Pedro - Yiri Yiri Boum 05:05 Tools
Djédjévi Gnin 06:15 Tools
Filinwe - Gnonnas Pedro 07:01 Tools
Afrei tei Cuba 04:38 Tools
Man won wou o 04:38 Tools
Avivogbe 05:02 Tools
Agbadja Moderne- Synthèse 10:05 Tools
Yiri Yiri Boum [Benin] 06:15 Tools
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La Musica en Vérité ( Oriental Tropical Edit) 06:15 Tools
Nuevo Tambourini 06:18 Tools
Irma Loi 05:02 Tools
Yiri Yiri Bou 06:15 Tools
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Azo N'kplon 06:15 Tools
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Lo Meyor de Mi Treinta Anos 05:02 Tools
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Yo Perfida 06:18 Tools
Yo Prefero el Son 06:18 Tools
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La Musica En V Rit 05:02 Tools
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Gnonnas Youssou Pierre (Gnonnas Pedro), singer, trumpeter and saxophonist: born Lokossa, Benin 10 January 1943; (three sons, four daughters); died Cotonou, Benin 12 August 2004. The late-blooming singer and musician Gnonnas Pedro achieved world-wide fame when he joined the African salsa supergroup Africando in 1996. But he had been well known in his hometown of Cotonou, Benin, since becoming active on the music scene there in the early 1960s. He has been described as a jack-of-all-trades for his many talents, which included playing trumpet and sax, singing and dancing. He also tailored his style to the vagaries of fashion in a country which has never produced much of a distinctive musical culture due to the overbearing influence of its neighbours. But it was his early and abiding penchant for Latin sounds which eventually brought him wider recognition in the twilight of his career. Having recorded a single with the French crooner Charles Aznavour in 1964, Pedro spent the Sixties leading his group Pedro y Sus Panchos. They exploited the vogue for Latin music in West Africa at the time, combining it with folklore from the Fon and Yoruba peoples in styles such as agbadja. Pedro enjoyed popularity in Nigeria during the 1970s with Yoruba highlife hits such as "Feso Jaiye" with his band Orchestra Poly-Rythmo. The following decade his band were known as Ses Dadjes. He recorded prolifically for various labels in Benin, Ivory Coast and Nigeria, and in 1984 began a professional relationship with the influential Senegalese producer Ibrahim Sylla. The following year their single "Les Femmes d'Abord" took much of West Africa by storm. In 1993, Sylla masterminded the formation of Africando, combining three Senegalese vocalists and the cream of New York's Latin music scene, and sparking off an international craze for African salsa. Sylla asked Pedro to join the group in 1996, a year after the death of their singer Pape Seck. Over their next four albums Pedro was a featured vocalist on songs such as "Dagamasi", "Musica en Vérité", "Dacefo" and "Hwomevonon" - often revived from his earlier career. Africando toured Europe, the United States and parts of Africa, with Pedro making his UK début at the Equinox Ballroom in London in 1997, where he impressed with his lively dancing, effervescent grin and irrepressible cries of "Yee-hooo!" at the ends of songs. The singer Sekouba "Bambino" Diabaté, who also guested on Africando's albums, recalls Pedro's contribution thus: "He liked his work a lot and really enjoyed giving pleasure to his fans as well. And he was very lively onstage, a real natural entertainer." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.