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08/22/2022

Hey New York I'm at the African Arts Festival on Castleton Avenue Saturday afternoon. August 27th.
The next day we're working on booking ourselves at Brownstone Jazz at the Sankofa Aban. Sunday the 28th.

The newest album from SONWA is now available. Precious: For Lovers and Dancers
03/17/2019

The newest album from SONWA is now available.
Precious: For Lovers and Dancers

Available now! On SONWA records. "Precious: For Lovers and Dancers"...The album for after the after party.
01/18/2019

Available now! On SONWA records. "Precious: For Lovers and Dancers"...The album for after the after party.

11/04/2015

Peace family...
The next SONWA release is coming up in about a month from now. Its our Kwanzaa season compilation Cd titled "KWANZAA TIME"...Featured artists include Rudi Mwongozi, Poetess Kalamu Chache, Mxolisi Ozo Sowande and The Sankofa Voices, and Byron Kimbrough among others. It will drop sometime in the first week of December so stay connected to us and we'll keep you updated..Happy Kwanzaa..
Jazz Lives, Liberation Gospel is here

Seeking Reality
02/07/2015

Seeking Reality

06/17/2012

Greetings You are in touch with The Sound Of New World Afrikah. I'm working hard to finish the "Liberation Gospel" album and make it a more than worthy successor to the "Seeking Reality" album. When I look back on it the "Seeking Reality" album was a good campaign. An effective campaign. Thanks in large part to Ali Ar Rasheed. His the value of his assistance is inestimable. That album would not have been released with as much energy and potential had it not been for him. Then my Brother Far I Shields had his recording studio and together we produced some very nice recordings. Among them "Seeking Reality". Another who played a role was Valerie Allums. I also thank Dwayne Wiggins and his wife Michelle who let me open up my campaign at The Jahva House which they ran back then. Now I'm finishing "Liberation Gospel" in a few weeks. Our campaign for this one will be much better and more effective because we have this much more experience and acumen. I want to thank a few of those who have helped us to this point. Robert Honablue, Stanley Banks, Bill Hudson, Abdus-Sabor, Carolyn Maxwell, Sari MorningHawk, Mother's Tone, Nisa Kali, Pio Winston, David Bell, Tahirah Abdul-Haqq, Sharif Islam,Tami Tyree, and Ahmed Abdullah musician, teacher and director of the Bedford Village Ensemble. Believe it or not that's a SHORT LIST. But Love to you all and to the rest of my Family and Friends on Facebook stay with me and I will be alerting you soon about the album release shows and the ad campaign...Love and Blessings. Jazz Lives and Liberation Gospel is here

04/28/2012

So to my New York Family...June 9th. That's when I'll be doing the next SONWA concert and it will be at Everthing Goes Book Cafe located at 208 Bay St. (across from Thompkinsville Park) in the Thompkinsville/St. George section of Staten Island. Its VERY accessable near the Staten Island Ferry terminal. You have and will see me doing may "gigs' around the tri-state area and some of them may be casuals just pick up gigs (and I'm doing less of those this year... for real). But the SONWA shows are MY personal musical expression and constitute what I want to share with the public. So for this I'll be doing the "Power Trio" format with Chris Hall on bas and Chris Almeida on drums and performing songs from my "Seeking Reality", Keys To The Treasures..." and "Liberation Gospel" albums. And also a special litle feature of my youngsters from the Uniersal Temple of The Arts youth vocal ensemble. Our show that night will start at 8:00PM. Don't worry if you're a litle short of cash. The show is free. Come check us out. Free Inspiration. You can't beat that. I'll remind you again when the time is near. Jazz Lives and Liberation Gospel is here

01/30/2012

Hey Family...My April's gonna be pretty busy and i hope to spend some of it with many of you. I'll be doing the New York City Tour in April with the SONWA Trio. I'll be announcing dates as they come in and the first ones are April 5 @ Cleopatra's Needle (Broadway at 92nd St. Manhattan), April 6th @ Brownstone Jazz (107 Macon St. Brooklyn) and April 14th @ Everything Goes Book Cafe (Bay St. on Staten Island). We're gonna hit all five boroughs on this mini tour. Plus it will be the month of the Central Brooklyn Jazz Festival so I hope to see a lot of you all in April...Blessings

01/03/2012

Hey New York family come check me out this coming Friday at "Jazz 966". Located at the obvious address 966 Fulton St. in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. The old school swing dancers come out at "966" so bring your dancin' shoes. We'll be doing SONWA songs from the albums "Seeking Reality", "Keys To The Treasures of Heaven and Earth", and "Liberation Gospel"...Jazz Lives and Liberation Gospel is here...Come bless us with your presence

11/04/2011

The latest release on SONWA redcords is now available. "Sweet Tommorrow Morning" by Betty Shirley with the Rudi Mwongozi Trio (Rudi Mwongozi piano, Bryce Sebastien bass, Lary Johnson drums). Contact mefor more info

10/19/2011

Welcome to the Sonwa page. I will be updating it with news and info from our activities. We are rehearsing for our show this December 10th at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn New York and completing the new album called "Liberation Gospel"

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11233

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