On July 22nd, 2016, 15,000+ people mostly of African and Caribbean heritage gathered at The One Africa Music Fest, held at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, to make history. It was the first time that an African musical festival took place on such grand scale; and it comes on the heels of what is a resurgence of Afrobeat music (made popular by Fela in the 1960s) in the West.
Produced by Paul Okoye of Upfront & Personal, a talent and events management company, and streamed through Jay-Z’s Tidal platform, the festival featured live performances from Africa’s biggest and brightest stars such as Wizkid, Davido, Stonebwoy, Diamond Platnumz, Flavour, Tiwa Savage and more.
On this 83rd of episode of The Africa Music Law Show, Ms. Uduak, host, discusses the event, and takes us through a brief history of what is an unstoppable rise of Afrobeat music in America. Indeed, Jamaicans (Reggae, Dancehall reggae), Indians (Bhangra), Puerto ricans and Spanish people in general (Reggaeton, Zumba) have had their own contemporary music renaissance. It is now Africa’s time.
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Hosted by California based Fashion & Entertainment Lawyer Uduak Oduok (Ms. Uduak), The Africa Music Law show is a show empowering the African artist through brilliant music business and entertainment law commentary and analysis, industry news, and exclusive interviews. The show has been downloaded over 100,000 times and made iTunes top 4 ‘New & Noteworthy.’ Subscribers include Africa & hollywood’s power executives, investors, lawyers, artists and other industry stakeholders. The blog itself has been cited in a U.S. top-ranked law school’s ‘International Law Review’ journal. Country demographic: Nigeria (26%), USA (23%), UK (15%), UAE (7%), and Other (29%).
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Credited for several firsts in the fashion and entertainment industry, Ms. Uduak is also a Partner and Co-Founder of Ebitu Law Group, P.C. where she handles her law firm’s intellectual property law, media, business, fashion, and entertainment law practice areas. She has litigated a wide variety of cases in California courts and handled a variety of entertainment deals for clients in the USA, Africa, and Asia. Her work and contributions to the creative industry have been recognized by numerous organizations including the National Bar Association, The American University School of Law and featured in prestigious legal publications in the USA including ABA Journal and The California Lawyer Magazine. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the prestigious Academy of Arts University in San Francisco.
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