Rocky Dawuni- Branches of the Same Tree
07/04/2015- Song River
Rocking
the Nation... Good Vibration.
In
our maturity if we allow it, wisdom will come, and a positive motion
to take her by the hand and dance in the light! Rocky Dawuni,
delivers his passion for love and life in his sixth album, Branches
of the Same Tree. Rocky is well-known in wide circles, as his
music has been in numerous television shows. With notable
collaborations Rocky has worked alongside humanitarians and music
artists such as: Bono, Stevie Wonder, Jason Mraz, and Peter Gabriel.
Rocky has a sense of knowing his music is the ointment to soothe
international boundaries through a greater understanding of one
another.
Eleven
tracks that move the soul to communicate in the international
language of happiness, love and peace.
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| Photo Credit: Michael Underwood |
Rocky
Dawuni from the very start of life has been drawn in by music, the
rhythms and its movements of existence. Early childhood with his
father as a cook in the military barracks stationed in Ghana, began
with the importance of life-long learning. Education was at the
forefront of daily life for their home. His father and family are
actually members of the royal family from the Konkomba
tribe, a village in Northern Ghana. Although living life between a
small village and barracks, when Rocky's father was posted to Egypt
with the United Nations Forces, a whole new world of cultures and
musical influences opened. Rocky was soon to learn, from his own
tuning into the vast array of Ghana's music, that this collective
would lead him to produce what is keenly him.
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| Photo Credit: Roxanne Haynes |
The
opening of the album bring Rocky's musical influences to hand
clapping, foot stomping, hip shaking, happy face singing along to-
Shine
a Light...
“on and on.. for the world to see.” Rock
Your Soul,
is an easy tune and a slow dance under the wide open star filled
skies. Dancehall movement is the motion in, African
Thriller,
as a rock'n tempo and horns give sway. Near to the peace loving heart
is the song, Children
of Abraham,
as he calls for the children of Abraham to put their weapons down. A
little soul and reggae soothe the sound in, We
Never Stop.
The
Sign,
plays with the Caribbean sounds. A tender strum gives us a love song,
Butterfly.
Masterfully, Rocky blends his political/cultural/social/philosophical
values with his passionate plea in so much of what he creates.
Nairobi,
“I love you, Nairobi I love you...” is heartfelt. His version of
Bob Marley's, Get
up, Stand Up,
is delivered with a touch of Rocky's magic. Rounding out, Branches
of the Same Tree,
is the diddy played on ukulele, Island
Girl.
The song that tells his girl, “you are the only one I want.”
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| Photo Credit: Mark Bennington |
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