Special thanks to "Mistah X," the Anonymous Nigerian cabbie from Chicago who put me up on Timaya during our ride back from dinner at 1 North...
So me and my parents are on our way back from 1 North, at UBS Tower in Chicago last Tuesday night, and the Nigerian cabbie - there are quite a few African cabbies in Chicago, by the way - is rocking some badass-sounding reggae in the cab. When we got back to the hotel, I popped by head through the divider and asked him who it was.
He just starts beaming. "Is from Nigeria - Timaya."
I thanked him and gave him an extra tip. Then I went to the hospitality suite, started drinking Goose Island Ale and totally forgot all about it until the next morning. So I guess it's thanks to the cabbie AND to Google, who took my mangling attempt, "Tembaya" and figured out I meant "Timaya." Not only did it come up with his two latest albums, but I copped 'em BOTH for less than sixteen bucks!
The tracks range from slightly run-of-the-mill reggae to high African-harmony dancehall, with just the right dashes of Auto-Tune thrown in. Real good stuff. I highly recommend it.
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Man I should have cabbed back with you!
ReplyDeleteI find stuff like this all the time - I learned about Puerto Rican reggae from this random PR kid who went to Duquesne. We were just hanging out in his room one night and I was like, 'What the hell is this?'
ReplyDeleteAnd to prove how strange the world can be, like five years later they played here in Delaware during the same summer I moved here! How crazy is that?!?