Kaya 959 The World Show With Nicky B

The World Show With Nicky B

The World Show is informative, expansive, and largely pan-African. This is a musical journey that bridges generations and genres, travelling across continents and timelines, with in-depth interviews and features. ‘The World Show’ is a four-hour global journey through sound – featuring the freshest tracks from home and afar.
Weekly English South Africa Arts · Performing Arts
294 Episodes
260 – 280

Alune Wade

In line with #CoronaHope we will be crossing to Paris to speak to Senegalese singer and bass virtuoso, Alune Wade. Having been headhunted by Ismaël Lô at the age of 18, Alune continued to perform and record with contemporary music legends including Salif Keita, Oumou Sangaré, Bobby McFerrin, Joe Zawinul,…
31 May 2020 40 min

Max Hoba

Our special guest is South African singer, songwriter and producer, Max-Hoba. With his signature AfroSoul sound and powerful performances, Max has already earned a devoted following, both in South Africa and internationally. Following his his two highly acclaimed previous albums, Max-Hoba is set to release his most powerful offering, ‘Beyele…
24 May 2020 50 min

Amobé Mévégué

We continue to Celebrate Africa on The World Show! We’ll be crossing over to Paris, to speak to Cameroonian-born Amobé Mévégué. Amobe is also a cultural activist, and his latest exciting project is ‘WAN 2020’ - an ongoing initiative and a 2 x hour musical event that is happening on…
17 May 2020 27 min

Mark Roth With Afrika Mkhize

The World Show features songs and interviews from #Coronahope projects - featuring dynamic South African artists! In conversation with Mark Roth [in Switzerland] and Afrika Mkhize [in SA] about the SA collective, Sabela and the song ‘Masibambeni’ which is “a call to South Africans to unite and be strong during…
10 May 2020 21 min

David Feigerolles

The World Show features songs and interviews from #Coronahope project - featuring dynamic South African artists! We crossover to Paris to chat with acclaimed producer, David Feigerolles. As a producer and sound engineer, David has worked with numerous icons of World Music, and is locally best known for his work…
10 May 2020 17 min

Fab Smith From LES FRERES SMITH

The World Show is an Afrobeat explosion! We’ll be crossing over to Paris to chat with Fab Smith from LES FRERES SMITH, the dynamic French, 11 piece Afrobeat, Afrofunk & Ethiopic Orchestra! They have just released their brand new album ‘Mutation’!
3 May 2020 38 min

Nduduzo Makhatini

We continue to celebrate artists and music that heals, inspires and uplifts… #CoronaHope We’ll be crossing over to the Eastern Cape to chat with South African treasure, Nduduzo Makhatini. Over the course of his eight previous albums, it’s clear that throughout his career, this composer, producer and piano maestro, has…
26 Apr 2020 58 min

Omar Sosa

On The World Show we continue with our feature on ‘Artists that Inspire’, and we’ll be crossing over to Spain to speak to the Cuban-born multi-instrumentalist, Omar Sosa.This piano maestro’s recording career began in 1997 with the release of his first solo piano album. He has since released over 22…
19 Apr 2020 42 min

Banda Banda & The Crocodiles

Banda Is Known For The Love Of Music And His Unique Way Of Approaching The Bass Which Made Him To Stand Out. Banda Will Be Giving Us More Insight On His Latest Project Titled Africado.
12 Apr 2020 21 min

Azah Pays Tribute To Manu Dibango

Azah Is A Multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Producer, Musical Director Cultural Activist, Educator And Philanthropist From The South African Jazz Capital Mamelodi in Pretoria.
5 Apr 2020 29 min

Corona Hope

Tubatsi Moloi Is A Musician, Singer-Song Writer, Lead singer For A Band Called Urban Village Music. His Music Asks The Audience To Be Open-minded And Exploratory As He Brings A Collaboration of Sound And Genre In Creating An Authentic Fusion Folk Sound.
29 Mar 2020 15 min

Kwani Experience

Kwani Experience, an innovative collective, also known as ‘The Most Famous Unknown Band’! Formed in Joburg in 2003, as a jam session and ’jazz experiment’. the group won the 2004 Standard Bank Totally Jazzed Contest, which led to the release of their debut album ‘The Birth Of The Mudaland Funk…
15 Mar 2020 44 min

Bongeziwe Mabandla

Bongeziwe Mabandla, who has been described as a “modern miracle” by Radio France Internationale (RFI) and who was recently profiled in prestigious UK music magazine, Songlines. Over the past eight years, this Joburg-based artist has steadily built his career and with a recent string of performances across Europe and Africa…
8 Mar 2020 47 min

Ramiro Naka,singer, songwriter and guitarist

Coming from Guinea Bissau, this Paris-based artist draws on his roots by blending a mix of musical genres, including fado, samba and salsa percussions, into the traditional Gumbé style - a rhythm originally played with big drums but also a dance, with contagious energy. Ramiro speaks of Guineans as the…
19 Jan 2020 28 min

Hervé Celcal.

We celebrate #Jazzuary with our special guest, jazz pianist Hervé Celcal. Coming from Martinique in the French West Indies, Hervé trained on classical piano from the age of 7, and after introducing traditional West Indian pieces in to his classical repertoire, he was introduced to jazz and improvisation. After settling…
12 Jan 2020 38 min

Seun Olota

With fresh sounds from around the world, the feature is an Afrobeat explosion - inspired by our special guest Seun Olota. Simply known as Olota, this Nigerian Afro-fusion artist has ‘built his music niche within the context of dance music, hymnal, choral and therapeutic music with original compositions for strings,…
8 Dec 2019 40 min

Mo Laudi

Known for being the first South African DJ/MC to have mixed in London clubs during weekly residencies and on RadioClit; Mo Laudi then moved to Paris in 2009, and he has since been spreading his Afro-groove and deep house in Parisian clubs - bringing together Detroit techno, Chicago house with…
1 Dec 2019 35 min

Aziz Sahmaoui

Our special guest is the Moroccan-born musician, Aziz Sahmaoui - an acclaimed singer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and heroic exponent of his region’s Gnawa music. For more than 20 years Aziz has worked to bring the sound of his native Morocco to life, far beyond the often superficial boundaries imposed by the…
24 Nov 2019 25 min

Kyekyeku (Tche-Tche-Kou)

Ghanain guitarist Kyekyeku (Tche-Tche-Kou), who encapsulates a new generation of Ghanaian musicians who “make the distant past meet contemporary idioms” of West Africa’s musical heritage. His music draws from the forest folk Palmwine blues and the cross rhythms of Ghana that gave birth to some of the Africa’s intrinsic styles,…
17 Nov 2019 10 min
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