AUSTRALIA is home to people from
different ethnic backgrounds and has been quite successful in absorbing
and integrating many groups of migrants on its shores. In recent years, we have seen the
influx of thousands of migrants from Africa, and just like other migrant
groups, Africans who come to Australia also face a variety of
challenges settling into a new environment with a new culture that is
fairly different from what they are particularly used to. In order to
make Australia home, African migrant groups have started reinventing
their culture and this can be seen in areas such as fashion and
entertainment. Additionally, over recent years Africans have
increasingly been more active in establishing businesses especially in
areas of food, hospitality, hair and beauty, entertainment, as well as
import and export of culturally relevant goods.
Recently Nano Jamz, an entertainment
company based in Melbourne was founded to help promote African music in
Australia such as Hip-life, Hip-Hop and Makosa. The company is now
announcing an Australian Tour for International super stars BRACKET, a
hip-hop duo from Nigeria which has been very successful around the world
with their first Album, which includes songs featuring mega artist in
the likes of P-Square, J Martins, Wiz Kid and many others. The group Bracket which is made up of
Nwachukwu Ozioko as Vast and Ali Obumneme as Smash is known for songs
such as“YORI YORI”, “My Girl”, “Mua Mua”, “Temperature”, “Me and You”,
No Time and many more. Their second album called “Cupid” was released in
September 2011, featuring artist such as 2Face Idibia, Flavour N’abania
and many others. Bracket has been quite successful around the world
thanks to, amongst other things the uniqueness of their voices and the
distinctive mix of their ethnic language (Igbo) with English.
Many Africans are very happy to see
their successful musical groups come to Australia. Baraka Emmy, a young
African we met in the streets of Footscray was excited to hear about
Bracket coming to Melbourne.“It’s about time, events such as these,
needs to be encouraged as it creates a sense of belongings and social
inclusion to many and also shows that we still have ties with our
cultures and also creates an opportunity for us to share our culture
with the wider Australian society” he stated . The event will be held in three
different cities here in Australia, The first show will be in Sydney on
Friday January 25, 2013 at the Factory Theater, located at 105 Victoria
Road, Marrickville, NSW, On Saturday Januauy 26, 2013 the group will be
performing live in Brisbane at the Hifi, located at 125 Boundary St,
West End QLD and finally on Sunday the 27 of January 2013, the group
will performing for the last time in Melbourne at the Hifi located at
125 swanston St, Melbourne. For more information about this event please visit www.facebook.com/nanojamzor Written By Stephanie Jumbo
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