Live performance is sweet and captivating, it reveals the
beauty of an artist and the individual musicianship backing the artist,
I love live music a lot I can recollect my first experience
1977 Nigeria hosted FESTAC '77
FESTAC '77 was a great art and cultural assembly of Africans
and African-Americans that was held for one month in Nigeria from the 15th Jan.
until the 12th Feb. 1977. It was truly a class act that brought people of all
races and nationalities to Nigeria in celebration of Acts and Culture that has
since not been surpassed.
Most of the festival took place in Lagos State - in the
main, conference and cinema halls of the National Theatre, Iganmu
which was
built for the event; the National Stadium in Surulere; Tafawa Balewa Square in
Lagos; and in the Lagos City Hall; except for the Durbar, a spectacular
involving over 3000 horses which took place in Kaduna State.
The Grand Patron of the event was President Olusegun
Obasanjo, who was then a Lt. General of the Nigerian Armed Forces and the Head
of the Federal Military Government. The President of the 2nd World Black and
African Festival of Arts was the then Cmdr Ochegomie Promise Fingesi, who was
then Nigeria's Commissioner for Special Duties.
The 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture
is an Event organized and staged by the International Festival Committee, and
its conception can be traced to the first festival held in Dakar, Senegal in
1966, which was then simply known as the World Festival of Negro Arts.The festival which was a great departure from the first
festival in terms of scope and magnitude embraced all Black and African people
from all over the world.
Yvette Marie Stevens, better known by her stage name Chaka
Khan, is an American singer-songwriter whose career has spanned four decades,
beginning in the 1970s as the frontwoman and focal point of the funk band
Rufus.
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