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Why they are here
He built a whole genre around a bass line imitating the call of the ground hornbill, and used it to sing about workers and about power.
Simon 'Chopper' Chimbetu was a Zimbabwean vocalist, guitarist and performer, considered the father of dendera music.
His sound used a heavy bass guitar to imitate the ground hornbill — the dendera — with repeating riffs and long solos, over lyrics about social and political life and the position of working people.
His sound used a heavy bass guitar to imitate the ground hornbill — the dendera — with repeating riffs and long solos, over lyrics about social and political life and the position of working people.
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