The Players was a
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
musical band in the 1970s. They gained more fame when
Eusèbe Jaojoby
Eusèbe Jaojoby (born 29 July 1955), commonly known by his surname Jaojoby , is a Malagasy composer and singer of ''salegy'', a musical style of northwestern Madagascar. Critics consider him to be one of the originators of the modern salegy styl ...
commonly known by his surname Jaojoby joined the band for experimental blending of Western and Malagasy musical elements becoming a definitive period for Jaojoby and the band and the advancement of the modern
salegy
Salegy is a popular music genre from Madagascar. Originating as a Sub-Saharan African folk music style in the northwestern coastal areas of Madagascar, modern salegy is the genre of Malagasy music that has gained the widest recognition and comm ...
genre. Earlier Jaojoby had been in Los Matadores, but left them in 1975 for a desire for greater freedom to write songs and further develop the syncretic modern salegy style with The Players, who were willing to take more risks with music. The band was managed by a
Chinese
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shopkeeper who provided them with a sound system and generator. The band toured northwestern Madagascar for the next four years with increasing success, recording two
45rpm singles and performing in
Mahajanga, Diego-Suarez and other towns and villages throughout the region before disbanding in 1979.
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Malagasy musical groups