{"id":78278,"date":"2024-07-07T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tv.guardian.ng\/?p=78278"},"modified":"2024-07-07T07:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T07:01:51","slug":"blick-bassy-is-one-of-africas-most-inventive-singer-songwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/blick-bassy-is-one-of-africas-most-inventive-singer-songwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Blick Bassy is one of Africa&#8217;s most inventive singer-songwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"k7HHp5cePBLpUqAZAFi\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><p><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Cameroon and now based in a village in northern France, the self-taught musician Blick Bassy has a knack for marrying his cultural heritage with modern soundscapes. Singing in his native language Bassa, on his four previous albums he explored his thoughts and feelings about his native land, as well as subjects like France&#8217;s colonial past. He sells out concerts in places like La Cigale in Paris and the Jazz Caf\u00e9 in London. Blick Bassy speaks to Eve Jackson about the deluxe edition of his album &#8220;M\u00e1dib\u00e1&#8221; that came out last year. &#8220;M\u00e1dib\u00e1 Ni Mbondi&#8221; includes four previously unreleased tracks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1083],"tags":[57,33914,33916,33915,33917],"class_list":["post-78278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-africa","tag-blick-bassy","tag-distinctive","tag-inventive","tag-songwriters","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}