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Who were your earliest musical influences? The music that first hit me as a wave of inspiration was the music my parents played, which was Kalindula – Zambian folk music like from artist PK Chishala – and the music my cousin played, which was Tupac and hip-hop music.

The idea that there’s just one sound that comes from the African continent. And it either sounds like this, or sounds like that, which is

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