{"id":447000,"date":"2010-03-19T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/?p=10005"},"modified":"2010-03-19T09:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T13:30:05","slug":"sila-and-the-afrofunk-experience-win-naacp-image-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447000","title":{"rendered":"Sila and the AFrofunk Experience Win NAACP Image Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sila and the Afrofunk Experience won an NAACP Image Award for their album, &#8220;Black President&#8221;. In a competition that pitted them against seasoned veterans including Zap Mama and Omou Sangare, Sila and the Afrofunk Experience won the prize for Outstanding World Music Album.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_10006\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 188px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Sila.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10006\" title=\"Victor Sila\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jamati.com\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Sila.jpg\" alt=\"Victor Sila\" width=\"178\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victor Sila<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span id=\"more-10005\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sila and the Afrofunk Experience&#8217;s second album was recognized as the top entry in the genre for 2009, a notable achievement and something of a surprise for the San Francisco-based artist and Kenyan native, who released the album independently on his own Visalia label. The album tackled such heavy issues as refugees, female beauty ideals, and global politics, with an original and funky Afropop sound influenced by both Fela Kuti and James Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The Image Award caps a remarkable outpouring of critical acclaim for Sila and the Afrofunk Experience and &#8220;<span>Black President<\/span>&#8220;. In addition to the band being named &#8220;Best International Act&#8221; by San Francisco Weekly, the album was among the Top 5 African releases of 2009, according to IPR&#8217;s &#8220;Afropop Worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the band.\u00a0 They will be performing on March 20th at the Great American Music Hall at the official Black President Victory Party. Tickets are $14; a portion of proceeds will be donated to Chilean earthquake victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sila and the Afrofunk Experience won an NAACP Image Award for their album, &#8220;Black President&#8221;. In a competition that pitted them against seasoned veterans including Zap Mama and Omou Sangare, Sila and the Afrofunk Experience won the prize for Outstanding World Music Album. Victor Sila Sila and the Afrofunk Experience&#8217;s second album was recognized as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}