Artist Richard Bona Album Review
Scenes From My Life Label: Sony
Genre: World Fusion
Origin: USA
Format: Music CD
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Scenes From My Life is a deceptively smooth introduction to a substantial artist who might simultaneously satisfy populist and elite elements of the jazz crowd. A prodigiously self-taught youth from a remote village in West African Cameroon, Bona came to the country's capital, then to Paris, New York, and the world through the bands of proto-globo stars Harry Belafonte and Joe Zawinul.