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| Zap Mama Returns to Boston This Saturday Zap Mama a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne, returns to Boston and invites a local Nigerian spoken word poet to join her on stage. Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo, who has been described as the future of hybrid vocal styles combining neo soul, hip-hop, Nigerian blues and jazz with slam poetry, was invited by Ourstage stars The Press Project to perform backing vocals and poetry with the 7 piece live hip-hop band at the Bonnaroo Music Festival. Upon her return from the Music festival she was asked to support Zap Mama on their LIVE NATION invitation back to Boston. Iyeoka expresses her excitement to open for Zap Mama explaining, "I'm thrilled to be sharing the stage with Zap Mama! I've been a fan for years and I was actually in the audience at the Paradise a few months ago when they toured through Boston promoting their Supermoon album. Watching them live transformed my approach to presenting my music." write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Jazz News :: home page |