The musician in this video is named Weesay. He lives in Monrovia, Liberia. He’s blind, and he built his instrument from scratch. This guy needs a contract.
The Bob Marley of Liberia
Posted byJames RoviraPosted inMusic, Videos, World MusicTags:Acoustic Guitar, Home Made Instruments, Liberia, Live Performance, Music, Street Music, Weesay, World Music
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Dr. James Rovira is higher education professional with twenty years experience in the field in teaching, administration, and advising roles. He is also an interdisciplinary scholar and writer whose works include fiction, poetry, and scholarship exploring the intersections of literature and philosophy, literature and psychology, literary theory, and music and literature.. His books include Women in Rock/Women in Romanticism (in development), David Bowie and Romanticism (forthcoming 2022), Writing for College and Beyond (a first-year composition textbook (Lulu 2019)), Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (Lexington Books 2019), Rock and Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, and Rock from Dylan to U2 (Lexington Books, 2018); Rock and Romanticism: Post-Punk, Goth, and Metal as Dark Romanticisms (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018); and Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2010). See his website at jamesrovira.com for details. View more posts
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That was amazing!
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