In , he was honored posthumously with an induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame. The song was released officially in Europe on May 10th, and in the United States on October 30th, According to members of Toto, they never expected the song to be as successful as it eventually became. Since the song came out in , it has been sampled by several artists, including rapper Nas and singer JoJo. Since the track came out in , it has been covered by several artists.
One of the most famous covers was released by the American rock band Weezer. The band released a cover of the song on May 29th, This was after a social media campaign to persuade the band to cover the song was launched in December by a year-old female fan. The African continent is the second most populous and second-largest continent, consisting of 54 countries.
Despite the notion that Africa is the least successful continent, it is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful places on Earth. It is rich with a beautiful culture and heritage. It is also filled to the brim with radiant sights, awesome wildlife, rich heritage, and beautiful people.
One special attribute of Africa is the diversity of each of its countries. Though all countries emerged from one African heritage, each of them has different and special beliefs with sub-cultural divisions within their regions. These countries are rich in diverse heritages and popular for their supply of Cocoa to other parts of the world. Within Ghana are 16 different regions and over twenty tribes, each with its distinct beliefs and ways of life.
Another is Nigeria. It is the largest country by population in Africa, with different tribes such as the Yoruba, Igbo, and many others. The cultural heritage of the African continent is entrenched in its Music, Dance, Art, Languages among others.
The clothes and traditional styles that were once frowned upon are now being embraced not just by the people of the homeland but other continents as well. Wearing the traditional Ankara or Kente is now seen as an act of pride. From different parts of Africa, dances from afrobeat and dance lords have consumed the contemporary dance styles that have reigned in the past years. These dances can be traced back to the Sub-Saharan African music traditions. There are some cities and sights in parts of the African Continent that continue to leave tourists and onlookers in awe.
Amongst the numerous breathtaking sites in Africa include the following:. Africa also boasts of perhaps the largest density of wild animal populations with a diversity of species including large carnivores, herbivores, and jungle animals. The African continent, despite all its economic and financial shortcomings, has many beautiful and great aspects that function successfully in its regard.
Love the song but the Music Video is nothing like what I envision while listening to the song. The only part I can relate to in the video is the spinning globe. Which for me made the song super special because when I was a kid, I went to Kenya with a performance arts group all Black girls from the South side of Chicago to do an arts exchange with students from one of the small villages in Kenya. I remember we were teaching one of our dances to them and just when it was time to perform, a crazy rainstorm started.
It was a big warehouse style building and there were no glass in the windows. So rain was started pouring in and we couldnt plug up our speakers to play the music. All we had was a phone with the song on it. As a child, he attended a Catholic school, and several of his teachers had done missionary work in Africa. At the time, Paich had never set foot in Africa, and based the song's landscape descriptions from an article in National Geographic.
Steve Porcaro and Steve Lukather once described the song as "dumb" and "an experiment", and that some of the lyrics were "goofy", particularly the line about the Serengeti. Steve Porcaro said it was the last song they recorded and it barely made the cut for the album.
At one stage, Jeff Porcaro considered saving 'Africa' for a solo album as other members didn't think it sounded like a Toto song.
At the time, the band were more focused on the album's lead single 'Rosanna'. The music video was directed by Steve Barron. In it, a researcher in a library played by David Paich tries to match a scrap of a picture of a shield to the book from which it was torn out. As he continues, a librarian Jenny Douglas-McRae working at a desk takes notice of him, while natives in the surrounding jungle begin to close in on the library. When the researcher finds a book entitled 'Africa', the native throws a spear, and the shield the native carries is the same as the one in the picture, sending a stack of books crashing down.
It has sold over 6 million copies in the US alone. In recent years, the song has grown in popularity thanks to its use in various TV shows, movies, video games, adverts, memes and YouTube covers.
There's even a Twitter feed that does nothing but tweet out lyrics to the song. In January , a sound installation was set up in an undisclosed location in the Namib Desert to play the song on a constant loop. But one day, seemingly apropos of nothing, the song sprung itself on me and I was hooked. It happened in the back of a taxi, whizzing through the streets of Amsterdam in the middle of the night. I was drunk on the warm summer, the good company, and a bottle of amazing red.
In other words, I was in just the right kind of mood to be charmed by this lovable 80s jam, with its sincere melancholy making for the perfect soundtrack to your life. It starts off gently, so it took a moment before I realized what was playing in the taxi.
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