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L.A. Baila - Sri lankan Radio & Concert News & Photographs & MP3 & Bands |
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| Baila is now very popular as dance music on the island of Sri Lanka. Baila is also a very popular sound in Latin America as well as Portugal. Sri Lanka is now famous for it. The History of Baila Music Baila they say has its original roots in Africa. The Portuguese colonized the maritime coastal regions of the island of Ceylon in the 16th Century. The Portuguese brought with them African slaves who were known as kaffrinha along with musicians who had guitars and ukuleles. Baila is rooted in the very origins of slavery. The Portuguese needed a cheap labor force - the Portuguese by 1444 were involved in the slave trade on the west coast of Africa. By 1854 thousands of Kaffir slaves per year were imported into Portugal as indentured servants. During the occupation of the maritime provinces of Ceylon the Kaffir slaves from the west coast of Africa were sent to Colombo and other parts to work as servants. They were also sent to Portuguese colonies in Latin America, hence the existence of baila music in places like Brazil, Argentina and Cuba. The legendary Radio Ceylon broadcaster, Vernon Corea created history by being one of the first Announcers who introduced Sinhala music - including baila - onto the English Services of Radio Ceylon - the oldest and one of the finest radio stations in South Asia. Vernon Corea also played baila music for the first time in London on his popular 'London Sounds Eastern' radio program on BBC Radio London in the late 1970s and 1980s. Baila music reached new British audiences in the capital. Sri Lankan stars like Desmond de Silva, Annesley Malewana and the supergroup The Gypsies, have performed baila songs all over the world including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, India and Australia. | ||||||||||
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