African Jazz

Friday, September 10

Sets at 10, 11:30 and 1AM

Every Friday night is African Jazz Night. Experience some of the greatest artists of this captivating genre! Tonight brings you Floxy Bee!.

The "Hikosso Diva" has performed at NYC’s Apollo Theatre and NYC’s Lincoln Center for the Arts, Canada’s Toronto Afrofest and Nigeria’s Lekki Beach. She has been the featured artist at fundraisers for the Hunger Project and the New York City Parks Department. She continues to perform at functions both small and grand and at popular clubs throughout the United States and Nigeria.

The "Hikosso Queen" has been given an honorary Master of Arts degree in Contemporary Music for her contributions in the world of music by New York’s University of All Saints. Hikosso Music is a mixture of highlife, makossa andsoukous made magical by the scintillating vocals ofFLOXY BEE. The background is highlife which FLOXYBEE is known for, and being the West African musical equivalent to American Jazz, has an open structuremaking it fertile ground for the Hikosso Queen’smultifaceted and eclectic talents.

FLOXY BEE, the Queen of Hikosso Music was born inLagos, Nigeria. Africa’s most electrifying songstress,began singing in the church, then performing withmajor stars such as the late Yemi Ogunsanya a.k.a.Yom-Yem and Sonny Okosun and the Ozzidi Bandwith whom she recorded Songs of Praise 1 and 2.Too talented to be kept on the side line, she alsoheaded her own bands: Floxy and Combo, Floxy and Ngomalio, Floxy and the Heroes, Floxy and friends and Floxy and her Band. She formulated Hikosso Music which is currently taking the world by storm.

Directions

82 West 3rd Street (btw Thompson & Sullivan) Greenwich Village New York NY 10012 tel. 212-477-ZINC (9462) Open 7 days: 6pm-2:30am weeknights 6pm-3am weekends

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