PRI’s The World presents the Global Hit, a daily spotlight on international musical artists or trends. Created by The World’s Marco Werman, the Global Hit features interviews with musicians, critics and deejays around the globe. He is also one of the curators of the South By Southwest Musical Festival (SXSW) – “All Music Is World Music.” Subscribe and follow:
Finnish singer Mirel Wagner’s music takes inspiration from the blues and her lyrics tend toward the morbid.
“We want to weave together a tapestry of percussion, rhythm, and harmony from New Orleans through Cuba, the Caribbean, and back to Africa,” Sam Price said, by way of explanation [...]
Anchor Marco Werman tells us about the debut self-titled album from the new supergroup Rocket Juice and the Moon.
Lee is a Korean rapper who once had a huge fan base around the globe, but that changed after an anti-fan club formed online claiming that Lee was a fraud and liar.
Reporter Bruce Wallace introduces us to Nigeria’s new music sensation: D’Banj.
The songs by French musician Yann Tiersen are perhaps best known in films like the French movie “Amelie.” But he has also just released his sixth studio album called “Skyline.”
Kenyan singer Nina Ogot tells reporter Mary Stucky about her new musical inspiration: working with young people who live on the streets of Nairobi.
The global fusion band Rupa and the April Fishes is on tour. For each performance audience members pedal bicycles that generate the electricity for the concerts.
Luz Elen Mendoza spent her summers among Mexicans immigrants and family members working the fields in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Those experiences helped form musical themes and images in the songs she has written for her band Y La Bamba.
Anchor Marco Werman talks with Spin Magazine’s David Peisner about the small, but committed community of metal heads in Cuba.
Austrian musical duo Attewenger mixes fast-paced accordion with dance-friendly (and a little bit crazed) beats. The World’s Alex Gallafent met the band in New York recently and spoke with them about road trips, swamps and funk.
Paco de Lucía has been performing since he was 11-years-old and recorded his first album in 1964. Anchor Marco Werman spoke to him during a recent stop in Boston.
Idan Raichel and Vieux Farka Touré are bestselling artists in their respective countries: Israel and Mali. A chance encounter at an airport in Germany led to a collaboration that is now out on CD titled “The Touré-Raichel Collective.”
British singer Hollie Cook is the daughter of former Sex Pistol and punk rocker Paul Cook, but unlike her father, she tackles reggae pop in her self-titled debut album.
Lebanese composer and oud player Marcel Khalifé tours the US paying homage to his friend, the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
