Zoblazo is a musical style from

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, Côte d'Ivoire, created in the early 1990s. It is a cosmopolitan popular dance music with simple up-tempo rhythm and high tech instrumentation and contains a mixture of traditional dance rhythms from southern Côte d'Ivoire. Zoblazo's best known exponent is Freddy Meiway, who has released a series of Zoblazo records starting in 1989 with the record "Ayibebou" with his group

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. An ethnic

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from

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, Meiway integrated folk rhythms from Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana with and is danced to with a white handkerchief. From his second album in 1990 entitled ''200% Zoblazo'', Meiway became the second best known Ivorian and N'zema musician after

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, and has released a steady stream records, the most recent ''9ème commandement –900% zoblazo'' released in 2007.

External links

RFI Musique: Meiway Biography
January 2007.
Review Meiway - Golgotha (800% Zoblazo)
Africa On Your Street, BBC.co.uk.
Meiway from Ivory Coast, JJC Reviews
May 2006: Africa On Your Street, BBC.co.uk. Ivorian styles of music World music genres Abidjan {{Coted'Ivoire-stub