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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".
564:, 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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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
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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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Guse) and their first son Shaw were murdered by Fritz
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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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523:, 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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653:, a musical stage production that showcased a dozen of his songs. McKay used the production to weave a story told by a "Grand Deacon". In August and September 1977 Exuma performed
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1904:"Jamaican Traditions - Obeah in the 21st Century"
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426:Nassau friends living in Brooklyn took McKay to
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2316:, Who's Who on the Nina Simone Database
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1953:"David Bromberg Overwhelms Audiences"
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1951:Wilson, John S. (January 20, 1974).
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1650:"Barclay in Distrib Deal with Exuma"
1979:"Michael Henry Sklar (1945 - 2016)"
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2209:"The Life & Music Of Exuma"
2074:Doyle, Patrick (May 16, 1972).
1859:"The Life & Music Of Exuma"
2076:"Cops Subdue a Murder Suspect"
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1720:Thompson, M. Cordell (1975).
1491:"The Nina Simone Web - Exuma"
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2006:"Exuma - the Obeah Man"
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2129:"He Gets 2 Life Terms"
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1266:Unterberger, Richie.
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474:Founding Exuma (1969)
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2135:. New York, New York
2082:. New York, New York
2034:. New York, New York
1983:New Orleans Advocate
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1795:. New York, New York
1706:. 1971. p. 157.
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951:Later life and death
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1932:. Chicago, Illinois
1930:The Chicago Tribune
1768:. September 5, 1977
1310:. Chicago, Illinois
923:Marriage and family
882:, Ricky Sebastian,
806:Momordica charantia
379:Born in Tea Bay on
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2448:Kama Sutra Records
1793:The New York Times
1656:. February 6, 1971
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1268:"Exuma - Exuma II"
1042:Queen Elizabeth II
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670:The New York Times
560:The second album,
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2028:"Heartbeat Music"
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849:Steppenwolf
833:Rita Marley
735:New Orleans
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590:(1971–1973)
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400:Fats Domino
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149:Instruments
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1746:August 13,
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1155:References
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442:Bizarre".
381:Cat Island
375:Early life
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204:Kama Sutra
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297:Hollywood
182:1962–1997
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2422:Rude Boy
2373:Exuma II
2264:April 9,
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1351:junkanoo
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