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World Music Round-up- Africa and Asia

I like a variety of music from around the world, so I thought today I'd do a round-up of world music posts on the blog. :) I was originally going to include more countries but it was turning into a really long post, so I've split it up! I'm starting with music from African and Asian countries.

Note: I've listed the countries and singers/groups in alphabetical order to make it easier but the Bollywood, Kollywood and Tollywood films are listed in order of posting (from oldest to newest) because that was how I did the previous Bollywood round-up post. 

Text size has been corrected so this should be easier to read now! :)




Africa


Angola

Perola: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/11/weekly-music-video_18.html


Cameroon

Henri Dikongue: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2012/01/weekly-music-video_25.html


Egypt

Amr Diab: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2013/06/weekly-music-video_26.html

Ruby: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/06/weekly-music-video_8.html


Mozambique/Angola

Liza James and Perola (see above) : https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/02/weekly-music-video_12.html

Nigeria 

P-Square:  https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/weekly-music-video_25.html

Tiwa Savage: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/weekly-music-video_27.html


Tanzania


TID: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2014/01/weekly-music-video_29.html


Asia


China


Chinese American C-pop star Coco Lee:

https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/weekly-music-video_23.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-music-video_10.html




Kelsang Metok (Tibetan Chinese): https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/weekly-music-video.html


China/Korea

EXO: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/weekly-music-video_30.html

Zhoumi (see K-pop Acts post)



India


Round-up of Bollywood posts up to Dec '15: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/12/bollywood-boxing-day.html

Nisha Kothari and Emraan Hashimi videos: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2016/03/nisha-kothari-and-emraan-hashmi-videos.html


Kollywood (Tamil language): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2015/05/kollywood.html


Tollywood (Telugu language):

Koncham Koncham from Dee: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2011/09/random-music-video.html

Maha Maha (Black Eyed Peas remix!): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2011/10/random-music-video.html

Krishna Murariki from Narasimhudu: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/weekly-music-video_16.html

Yeluko Nayaka from Narasimhudu: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2013/03/weeky-music-video_20.html

Mila Mila from Super Super: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2013/05/weekly-music-video.html


Indonesia

Anggun:

http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/3-singers-i-discovered-through.html

http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/anggun-lyrics-project.html


Japan

J-pop acts featured on the blog up to Sep '15: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/j-pop-acts.html

Crystal Kay and Namie Amuro song: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/new-j-pop-crystal-kay-and-namie-amuro.html

FAKY (also Korean american singer Jay Park: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/weekly-music-video_28.html

FAKY: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/02/weekly-music-video.html

Hiromi and Jasmine songs: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/weekly-music-video.html


Korea

K-pop acts featured on Star Sparkle up to Oct '15: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/k-pop-acts.html


Jay Park (also features Japanese girl group FAKY): http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/weekly-music-video_28.html

MONSTA X: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/weekly-music-video_25.html

Reddy feat. Jay Park: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/weekly-music-video_16.html

NCT U: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/weekly-music-video.html


Russia (see upcoming Europe post)




Thailand

Tata Young: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/weekly-music-video.html


Also see Mila Mila post in the Tollywood section and the Bollywood Boxing Day post.


Turkey

It's also partly in Europe but since the majority is in Asia I'll include it in this post. :)

Arman: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/weekly-music-video_28.html

Atiye (also features Kenan Dogulu): https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/girls-vs-boys-turkish.html

Davut Gologlu:

https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/weekly-music-video.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/weekly-musi-video.html


Gökhan Türkmen: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/weekly-music-video_27.html

Hadise:

https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/weekly-music-video_7.html

https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/weekly-music-video.html



Hadise and Davut Guloglu: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/girls-vs-boys-turkish.html

Kenan DoÄŸulu (see Atiye link above).

Murat Boz and Tugba Yurt: https://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/girls-vs-boys-turkish.html

Vietnam

Emily feat LiL Knight and Justatee: http://starsparklex.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/weekly-music-video.html

Stay tuned for more world music round-up posts! :)

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