Jazz Articles about Kuku

Kuku: Ballads & Blasphemy

by James Nadal
July 31, 2015

Yorubaland is a region of southwest Nigeria which extends into parts of Benin and Togo. It is the ancestral homeland of the Yoruba people, and remains a vital source of cultural identity, especially spiritual music and rhythms. Kuku is a singer/songwriter who though born in the United States, is a Yoruba Nigerian, now residing in Paris. He has been in a cross-cultural existence his whole life, brought to light in his 2012 release “Soldier of Peace." Ballads & Blasphemy finds ...