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want to say in a positive way. I don't want to say anything negative. I try to go through every word and make sure that there is nothing negative gender-wise or any-kind-wise. If I have done anything in the past that is not that way, well, I beg forgiveness for that. But I try to move on a positive note." McKay said he had recorded 30 new songs during 1994 with New
Orleanian Charles Hancock and fellow Bahamian Rudy Green. At the time he was "presently in the process of deciding which will make the final cut".
553:, featured performers were: Tony 'Exuma' McKay – lead vocals, guitar, ankle bell, & Sacred foot drum; Daddy Ya Ya – backing vocals, bass, attar & elephant bells, & marching drums; Yogi - backing vocals & junk bells; Spy Boy Thielheim – high harmony congas, cabassa, & Sacred sand; Lord Cherry - congas & whistle; Lord Wellington – congas; & Princess Diana & Sister Sally O'Brien (bass drum)– backing vocals & whistles.
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McKay often performed with well known musicians and comedians in small
Greenwich Village clubs and bars. "I started playing around when Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Peter, Paul and Mary, Richard Pryor, (Jimi) Hendrix and (Barbra) Streisand were all down there, too, hanging out and performing at the Cafe
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Mercury
Records launched "a full-scale promotion and advertising campaign". Lou Simon, then Mercury Records' Senior VP for Sales, Marketing and Promotion said "the reaction is that of a heavy, big numbers contemporary album... as a result, we're going to give it all the merchandising support we can
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McKay further explained his interpretation of Obeah. "Obeah was with my grandfather, with my grandmother, with my father, with my mother, with my uncles who taught me. It has been my religion in the vein that everyone has grown up with some sort of religion, a cult that was taught. Christianity is
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Bahamian Embassy. Davis invited McKay to perform at the 1978 Festival. McKay performed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival from 1978 until 1991. The 1983 Festival program described McKay as "Exuma - the Obeah man whose Caribbean music is similar in spirit to the street
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McKay moved to New York City at the age of 17 to study architecture. He "promptly ran out of money". Friends give him an old guitar and knowing three or four chords, he started practicing old
Bahamian calypsos. Homesick for Nassau, McKay began writing poetry about Ma' Gurdie and Junkanoo. These
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manager Bob Wyld. "I'd been singing down there (Greenwich
Village), and we'd all been exchanging ideas and stuff. Then one time a producer (Wyld) came up to me and said he was very interested in recording some of my original songs, but he said that I needed a vehicle." Wyld recommended McKay to
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Bahamian musicologist Roney Ambrister, BEM said of McKay "You could put him in line with (Joseph) Spence. He was a jubil fellow, very happy, he would grab his guitar, kick off, and the rest of the band would follow him". Ambrister said while "there was no such thing as 'Obeah
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said that the show "has no plot or overall theme", but instead "consists of a series of original songs by the Bahamian singer, songwriter and guitarist Exuma, but the songs have been elaborated into theatrical sketches, with 40 dancers, singers and musicians participating."
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like good and evil. God is both. He unlocked the secrets to Moses, good and evil, so Moses could help the children of Israel. It's the same thing, the whole completeness—the Obeah Man, the spirits of air."
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McKay painted, using chalk pastels, oil paints and water colors, during his music career. He created the cover artwork for many of his albums, beginning with the first in 1970. Musicologist
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512:, produced by "Daddy Ya Ya", a pseudonym adopted by Bob Wyld. Wyld produced the first six of Exuma's albums. Singles released from that lp were "Exuma, The Obeah Man" and "Junkanoo".
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at his most voodooed-out, though even that nutshell doesn't really do justice to how unusual this record is.
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1881:. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. 2017.
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Move to Colorado, and the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife (1994)
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2270:"From the Collection: 'Solomon' (2000) by Stan Burnside"
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had two singles released, "Damn Fool" and "Zandoo".
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1893:"Jamaican Traditions - Obeah in the 21st Century"
1320:Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco
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1109:From Africa To America To Junkanoo To Armageddon
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2043:"New York Marriage License Indexes, 1907-2018"
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2305:, Who's Who on the Nina Simone Database
2176:The Tribune - USA Today Bahamas Edition
2015:Leogrande, Ernestt (December 9, 1972).
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1974:. New Orleans, Louisiana. June 3, 2016
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1942:"David Bromberg Overwhelms Audiences"
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2143:Fleysher, Ellen (January 26, 1974).
1940:Wilson, John S. (January 20, 1974).
1731:from the original on August 13, 2022
1639:"Barclay in Distrib Deal with Exuma"
1968:"Michael Henry Sklar (1945 - 2016)"
1510:Sears, QC, Alfred (March 1, 2015).
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1025:In June 1988 McKay was awarded the
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2220:"Doongalik Studios Art Gallery"
2198:"The Life & Music Of Exuma"
2063:Doyle, Patrick (May 16, 1972).
1848:"The Life & Music Of Exuma"
2065:"Cops Subdue a Murder Suspect"
1664:The Seth Man (December 2003).
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620:Godevan – A Play in Three Acts
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1709:Thompson, M. Cordell (1975).
1480:"The Nina Simone Web - Exuma"
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1913:Harris, Lew (May 31, 1970).
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1396:"Exuma Man For All Seasons"
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1948:. Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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1537:"Opening for the Season"
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1995:"Exuma - the Obeah Man"
1318:Shapiro, Peter (2005).
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830:Toots & the Maytals
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2297:"Exuma - The Obeah Man
2118:"He Gets 2 Life Terms"
1818:"Exuma, the Obeah Man"
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923:Murder of wife and son
861:Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis
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1369:Duke University Press
1255:Unterberger, Richie.
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463:Founding Exuma (1969)
2151:. New York, New York
2124:. New York, New York
2071:. New York, New York
2023:. New York, New York
1972:New Orleans Advocate
1946:Fort Lauderdale News
1784:. New York, New York
1695:. 1971. p. 157.
1027:British Empire Medal
940:Later life and death
2249:. November 17, 2011
1921:. Chicago, Illinois
1919:The Chicago Tribune
1757:. September 5, 1977
1299:. Chicago, Illinois
912:Marriage and family
871:, Ricky Sebastian,
795:Momordica charantia
368:Born in Tea Bay on
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2437:Kama Sutra Records
1782:The New York Times
1645:. February 6, 1971
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1257:"Exuma - Exuma II"
1031:Queen Elizabeth II
971:Babatunde Olatunji
877:Babatunde Olatunji
659:The New York Times
549:The second album,
457:Peaches & Herb
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2017:"Heartbeat Music"
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1055:Discography
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838:Steppenwolf
822:Rita Marley
724:New Orleans
707:(1979–1986)
685:Quint Davis
579:(1971–1973)
558:Julian Cope
389:Fats Domino
278:New Orleans
266:The Bahamas
138:Instruments
74:The Bahamas
2457:Categories
2149:Daily News
2122:Daily News
2069:Daily News
2021:Daily News
1751:"Concerts"
1735:August 13,
1541:The Record
1446:Wavelength
1303:August 12,
1268:August 12,
1229:August 12,
1144:References
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842:Black Flag
826:Peter Tosh
589:Kama Sutra
431:Bizarre".
370:Cat Island
364:Early life
257:stylings.
216:Tony McKay
193:Kama Sutra
70:Cat Island
62:1942-02-18
47:Birth name
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701:Universal
683:producer
470:Junk Band
451:In 1969,
421:Cafe Wha?
385:Sam Cooke
286:Hollywood
171:1962–1997
68:Tea Bay,
2411:Rude Boy
2362:Exuma II
2253:April 9,
2225:Facebook
1755:New York
1729:Archived
1666:"Unsung"
1344:Dr. John
1340:junkanoo
1262:AllMusic
1241:Dr. John
1223:AllMusic
1133:Rude Boy
1070:Exuma II
985:junkanoo
844:and the
773:Artistry
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705:Rude Boy
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