Artist description The band music presents joyful melodies driven by energetic rhythms, combining such genres as Jamaican reggae and U.S hip-hop with African influences such soukous, juju and afro-beat. The music carries a militant and positive message filled with rastafarian ideals of peace, love and harmony to all mankind.

Music Style reggae,world,hip-hop

Musical Influences peter tosh,bob marley,fugees,ben harper,marvin gaye,james brown,fela kuti

Similar Artists bob marley, aswad,steel pulse, refugees, ben ahrper,omar

Artist History The band "Burnin'Ash" was formed in Brussels, Belgium, by African students from Congo-Kinshasa in 1987. They are led by Audax Mundele, who studied in Europe and graduated from economics school in Brussels. Their music presents joyful melodies driven by energetic rhythms, combining such genres as Jamaican reggae and U.S hip-hop with African influences such soukous, juju and afro-beat. The music carries a militant and positive message filled with rastafarian ideals of peace, love and harmony to all mankind. They have performed as supporting act to the "Reggae Sunsplash" festival sharing the stage with well known bands such as UB40, Steel Pulse, Aswad and with other leading African artists such as Papa Wemba. When describing their influences, Audax states (that) "In Africa we've been listening to Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and the other reggae artists for long time. We are the peace soldiers, spreading the spiritual teaching of His Majesty. We are popular, but we are not seeking commercial fame. We want people to know about how we Africans feel about all the current social, political, economical and environmental issues that our planet is facing. In this millenium age we conscious Africans would like to add our voice to the positive message that has to be spread in this global village, called planet Earth. The music we play makes people happy, it is as simple as that. We want to bring our message through music." The band rehearses three or four times a week. In relation to writing new material Audax says that "we get halfway through and start making up two or three others. We take things with a cool and easy attitude in the band." Jammin' and the celebration of their message appear to be the driving force behind their creativity. The band has toured extensively in Europe and Asia. JAH bless Peace,Love and Harmony .

Group Members Band Members audax mundele - lead singer,guitarist,keyboard,drums,bassBorn in africa (Democratic Republic of Congo- kinshasasamy diagienda- keyboardsarmand diangienda,drums,guitars,vocals

Instruments guitars,drums,percussions,bass,synthesizers,melodica,saxophone

Albums burnin'ash

Location Shanghai, shanghai - China

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