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Global Music Column – September

  • Aug 16, 2022
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Updated: Nov 21, 2022

Star Feminine Band – In Paris

Benin’s Star Feminine Band have had a remarkable journey to releasing their music. The seven-piece all-female group, aged between 12 and 19, only began learning their instruments in 2016, after participating in a free music workshop in their remote home town of Natitingou. Following two years of after-school rehearsals, the group came to the attention of French engineer Jérémie Verdier, who recorded demos of the band’s celebratory mix of Ghanaian highlife melody, earthy Congolese rumba and folk sato rhythms.


Read the review in the Guardian.


[This piece was published on 12/08/22]

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