The Jackson 5 kind of looked like me. Sung nothing like me, fortunately. Reflected a life I thought fun and colourful. My father still has the Off The Wall record. It is my favourite Michael Jackson album – musicianship of the highest order. I do appreciate it...
I promise I will post on something other than music soon but I had to share this one. And yes, it is another artist covering a Michael Jackson song after I just shared Aloe Blacc doing Billie Jean. I just did a brief ‘review’ of the soundtrack for Think...
Egbert Nathaniel Dawkins III, known as Aloe Blacc, exists on the fringes of the mainstream music industry. If it wasn’t for the friend of a friend passing on a copy of his 2010 album Good Things, he would probably wouldn’t have registered on my radar. The...
Where does the future of soul music lie? In a new sound or in the past? How much of your taste in music has been influenced by what was played around the house when you were growing up? Maybe you aren’t old enough to remember records but some of the more old school...
Written on September 22nd, 2009 Do you ever sit and wonder what music will sound like in 10 years from now? 20 years? With all the talk that television and cinema are going to dwindle in popularity, do you ever wonder what you will be watching in the future? Do you...
About Kojo Baffoe
Of Ghanaian/German heritage, raised in Lesotho and currently based in Johannesburg, South Africa, Kojo is the proverbial slashie, the professional ‘jack of all trades.’ He is an entrepreneur, writer, facilitator, content architect, former men’s magazine editor and speaker. He has a Bachelor of Commerce (1994) with majors in Economics, Marketing and Business Administration from the former the University of Natal (Durban), now University of KwaZulu-Natal.
