Richard Bona is steps away
Richard Bona and most of humanity are within 6 degrees of each other. This matrix combines the small-world principle behind this fact with inter-artist recommendations-in-series. By this m.o., writers, musicians, filmmakers, quiltmakers, dancers, painters, multimedia artists, architects, sound designers, chefs, producers et al (see categories) across the planet are within close, discoverable steps of each other, and most of the world as well. 100% AI FREE
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Why again is Richard Bona mere steps away from all other artists in here, and by extension, everybody on the planet?
WHO IS CURATING FROM HERE?
- Vertex/Edges Out by: The Matrix via ↴
Artist & Where
- Name: Richard Bona
- City/Place: Brooklyn, New York
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Minta, Cameroon
Life & Work
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Bio:
Elements of Richard Bona's bass playing have never the left the small village in Cameroon where he was born and lived as a child.
Drive, persistence and prodigious talent though got Richard to Cameroon's capital of Douala, to Paris and Marseille, and to New York City, his music rites of passage though territory, time and history, but always hearkening back to his beginnings...
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
Management:
Quincy Jones Productions
Adam Fell / Thomas Duport
info@quincyjones.com
Bookings (except France and Poland):
Music Works International
Katherine McVicker
info@musicworksinternational.com
For France:
Anteprima
Reno Di Matteo
reno@anteprimaproductions.com
For Poland:
Agencja Artystyczna 4music
Joanna Drozda
joanna@4music.com.pl
Media & Markets
- ▶ Twitter: BonaRichard
- ▶ Instagram: richardbonaofficial
- ▶ Website: http://www.richard-bona.com
- ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxOe-Jhvf7b8u2ZbvlbrtQ
- ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCfyJ8C1HIpVQHwbSADiwh9w
- ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/4lWf9e9vJjbMehRGUgH8Fu
- ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/1IabJFOoxJYOb6QrqHFROp
- ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/3xx2olJMUd5uONMZxPhFWZ
- ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/28rNJjo7RDgAV7Uscjv67T
- ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/2OQiRUe3Y1b7c7tczeh1rE
- ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/7clzPL1gMDlSCIKjkncP9Z
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
"Imagine an artist with Jaco Pastorious’s virtuosity, George Benson’s vocal fluidity, João Gilberto’s sense of song and harmony, all mixed up with African culture. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you Richard Bona!"
– Los Angeles Times
Clips (more may be added)
ABOUT THE MATRIX
This matrix is dedicated to creative artists and non-algorithmic discovery.
It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world
While the Brazilian musicians I work with now you may not know, I formerly worked (chasing unpaid royalties!) on behalf of Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Jim Hall, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Philip Glass, The Cadillacs (Earl Carroll), The Flamingos (Zeke and Jake Carey), and others, including Oscar-winning world-class great-guy Robb Royer. I was interviewed by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio several years ago ... about the Brazilians:
- Randy "Pardal/Sparrow" Roberts
All is more connected than we know.
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
The matrix was inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone...
Our logo, per the "spirit" above, is a cortador de cana, a cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.
