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{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Rocky Dawuni
| image = Rocky Dawuni.jpg
| caption = Rocky, with his guitar
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = David Dawuni
| alias = Rocky Dawuni
| birth_date = 
|birth_place = [[Ghana]]
| instrument = Guitar piano, percussion
| genre = [[Reggae]] [[Afro Beat]] and Soul
| occupation = Musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, social activist
| years_active = 1997–present
| label =
| website = {{URL|rockydawuni.com/}}
}}

'''Rocky Dawuni''' is a [[Reggae]] artist, singer and songwriter from [[Ghana]], in West Africa. He first appeared on the music scene in 1996 with [[The Movement (reggae band)|The Movement]]; which was released on Aquarian Records. A video of ''What Goes Around'' rose on the [[Reggae]] Video Chart in January 1997. Rocky, wrote, arranged, and produced tracks on the 1998 release album entitled 'Crusade' which was put out on Aquarian and Who Dun It Records. The first single and video titled ''In Ghana,'' became an international success on both radio and television. Dawuni describes the song as a celebration of 40 years of and political stability Independence enjoyed by Ghana.

== Early life ==
The first time Rocky Dawuni heard reggae music was in Michel Camp, which is a military barracks in Ghana where he was born. There was a military band called 'Hot Barrels' which used to do covers of popular songs including reggae music. Rocky was interested in music, which is why he attended the Hot Barrels' rehearsals. Rocky's attention was grabbed at a rehearsal in which the Hot Barrels played a [[Bob Marley]] cover. He later said: "I remember totally being drawn to the words and also the message and the intentions of the music," he told CNN's [[Isha Sesay]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/23/rocky.dawuni.ghana.reggae/index.html?iref=allsearch |title=CNN – Rocky Dawuni |accessdate=27 June 2012}}</ref> When Rocky was accepted into the University of Ghana to study Philosophy and Psychology he turned his attention to realizing his music career by starting his first campus band called Local Crisis and thus launching his music career.

Rocky Dawuni in 2012 was named an Ambassador of a UN Global Alliance Foundation<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cleancookstoves.org/the-alliance/alliance-ambassadors/ | title=Alliance Ambassadors | publisher=clean stoves | accessdate=26 January 2013}}</ref> which include Academy Award-winning actor [[Julia Roberts]] and Chef Jose Andres. This UN Foundation advocates for clean cook stoves around the world.

==Career==
Rocky Dawuni has released five albums to date. His music is a fusion of Reggae, [[Afrobeat]], [[Highlife]] and Soul.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}} His song ''In Ghana'' from the album ''Crusade'' on [[iTunes]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/crusade/id115096790 | title=Crusade on iTunes | accessdate=17 July 2012}}</ref> was featured on ''Reggae Around the World''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.putumayo.com/content/reggae_around_world_0 | title=Reggae Around the World | accessdate=17 July 2012}}</ref> released by the Putumayo Music label in 1998.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/SHOWBIZ/Music/08/23/rocky.dawuni.ghana.reggae/index.html?iref=allsearch |title=Awards | accessdate=27 June 2012}}</ref>

Rocky won the "Best African Artist 2011" at the International Reggae & World Music Awards. [[CNN]] featured him on [[African Voices]] describing him as "Ghana's Bob Marley" in August 2011 and named him one of the Top 10 African Artists on the global stage.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thisisafrica.me/music/detail/1669/Rocky-Dawuni-wins-Best-African-Artist-award-in-Trinidad | title=Best African Artist | accessdate=27 June 2012}}</ref>

Rocky has appeared in concerts with [[Stevie Wonder]], [[Peter Gabriel]], [[Jason Mraz]], [[Shaggy (musician)|Shaggy]], [[Sharon Jones (singer)|Sharon Jones]], [[Janelle Monáe]], [[Keb' Mo']], [[Vusi Mahlasela]] and [[K'naan]]. He has performed on stages around the world including the [[Hollywood Bowl]] and his music has been featured on popular US television shows like "ER", "Weeds" and "Dexter" as well as on [[Electronic Arts]] video game titles ''[[The Sims 2: Castaway]],'' ''[[FIFA 08]],'' [[FIFA 10]],'' [[2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (video game)|2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa]].''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/dawuni_rocky/artist.jhtml |title=MTV | accessdate=27 June 2012}}</ref>

Dawuni released albums ''Awakening'' in 2001 and ''Book of Changes'' in 2005, which featured a progressive fusion of Reggae and Afrobeat. {{citation needed|date=July 2012}} The track "Wake the Town" is a typical example of such fusion.

In 2007, his cover of John Lennon's "[[Well Well Well (John Lennon song)|Well Well Well]]" appeared on Warner Bros Release ''Instant Karma; The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur''. Dawuni featured on two songs; "War/No more Trouble" and "Biko" with [[Bono]] and [[Keb Mo]]' on ''[[Playing for Change]]'' released by [[Concord Records]] in 2009, which reached No. 10 on Billboard 200 Album charts<ref>{{cite web |url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=various artists|chart=all}}|title= 200 Album – Billboard| accessdate=27 June 2012}}</ref>

[[Image:RockyDawuni.StevieWonder.jpeg|thumb|left|'Rocky Dawuni performs with Stevie Wonder']]

Two tracks from ''Hymns For the Rebel Soul'':<ref>{{cite web |url=http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/hymns-for-the-rebel-soul/id350260482 | title=Hymns for the Rebel Soul – iTunes |publisher=iTunes | accessdate=24 July 2012}}</ref> "Download the Revolution" and "African Reggae Fever" were featured on FIFA SOCCER 2010 and FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010 as part of an international soundtrack celebrating the cultural vibrancy of the first FIFA World Cup(TM) to be held in Africa.

His fifth studio album ''Hymns For the Rebel Soul'' released in late 2010 was nominated for "Outstanding World Music Album" at the 42nd [[NAACP Image Award]]

Dawuni was appointed Ghana's Tourism Ambassador in 2011 and "World Music Ambassador for MUSIGA (Musician's Union of Ghana) in 2011. Dawuni serves as an activist and spokesperson for causes related to clean water and sanitation, [[Guinea worm eradication]], women issues, environmental awareness, HIV/AIDS, girl child education and is also a goodwill ambassador for the promotion of peace and tolerance. He has collaborated with Product (RED), [[UNICEF]],<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ghana_39177.html | title=Rocky Dawuni | publisher=Unicef | accessdate=23 July 2012}}</ref> the Carter Center and the UN Global Fund to further some of these efforts.

In September 2012, Rocky Dawuni joined the [[Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves]] as a Clean Cooking Ambassador. After learning that exposure to cooking smoke from open fires and traditional cookstoves kills over four million people around the world every year, Dawuni decided to raise awareness about the issue in Ghana and abroad.

He created the "Independence Splash Festival" in Ghana, an annual music event that raises awareness for a series of social causes, including provision of clean water and education for girls which forms part of Rocky's efforts at using music as a tool for social change.

On March 31, 2015 Rocky Dawui released an album entitled '''Branches of the Same Tree''' under the label Cumbancha. The self-produced album has 11 tracks including the single '''African Thriller''', <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_5myZ2PO0k&feature=youtu.be | title=African Thriller}} Music video.</ref> remixed by Jeremy Sole from KCRW. The album features fellow Ghanaian artist Samini and other guest musicians like Tom Freund and Adam Topol (Jack Johnson).

==Discography==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Album !! Year
|-
| The Movement || 1996
|-
| Crusade || 1998
|-
| Awakening || 2001
|-
| Book of Changes || 2005
|-
| Hymns for the Rebel Soul || 2010
|-
| Branches of The Same Tree || 2015
|}

== Music Featured on Television ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Track !! TV Program !! TV Station
|-
| Wake the Town || [[ER (TV series)|ER]] || [[NBC]]
|-
| Jammin Nation || [[Weeds (TV series)|Weeds]] || [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]]
|-
| Jah Be For Us || Weeds || Showtime
|-
| Shashemane || ER || NBC
|-
| Jah Be For Us || [[Dexter (TV series)|Dexter]] || Showtime
|-
| Knockin on Heaven's Door || ER || NBC
|}

== Music Featured on Video Games ==

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Track !! [[Electronic Arts|EA Games]] !! Year
|-
| African Soccer Fever || [[2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa (video game)|2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa]] || 2010
|-
| Download The Revolution || [[FIFA 10]] || 2009
|-
| The One || [[The Sims 2: Castaway]] || 2008
|-
| Wake Up The Town || [[FIFA 08]] || 2007
|-
| African Thriller || [[2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil (video game)|2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil]] || 2014
|}

== See also ==
*[http://www.rockydawuni.com/ Rocky Dawuni Official Website]

==References==
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Ghanaian Reggae artist, singer and songwriter
| DATE OF BIRTH     =
| PLACE OF BIRTH    = Ghana
| DATE OF DEATH     =
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[[Category:Ghanaian musicians]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Dagomba people]]


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Second, here is the link provided to state that the article is a copyvio:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120622012802/http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-23/entertainment/rocky.dawuni.ghana.reggae_1_reggae-music-rocky-dawuni-military-band?_s=PM:SHOWBIZ

(quick assessement... if there is a copyvio... it is obviously not about the entire article)

I add the recent history for consideration

Page history
(del/undel) (diff) 04:09, 6 March 2015 . . EdJohnston (talk | contribs | block) (495 bytes) (Protected due to possible copyvio. Protection can be lifted when the issue is resolved)
(del/undel) (diff) 04:07, 6 March 2015 . . EdJohnston (talk | contribs | block) m (480 bytes) (Protected Rocky Dawuni: Edit warring / content dispute: Possible copyright violation ([Edit=Allow only administrators] (expires 02:07, 9 March 2015 (UTC)) [Move=Allow only administrators] (expires 02:07, 9 March 2015 (UTC))))
(del/undel) (diff) 02:46, 6 March 2015 . . MyNameIsVlad (talk | contribs | block) (480 bytes) (I am using my 3rd revert on this. There is a valid copyvio report out, and the user has properly reported this page. The history is full of copywritten work, so no reversion is possible. Therefore, blanking is required.)
(del/undel) (diff) 02:20, 6 March 2015 . . Spearmind (talk | contribs | block) (9,509 bytes) (Undid revision 650071971 by MyNameIsVlad (talk) this is no reason to blank the article)
(del/undel) (diff) 02:13, 6 March 2015 . . MyNameIsVlad (talk | contribs | block) (480 bytes) (There is an existing copyvio report for this page, therefore the blanking is warranted. Please let an admin deal with the issue. (Undid revision 650070252 by Matiia (talk)))
(del/undel) (diff) 01:58, 6 March 2015 . . Matiia (talk | contribs | block) m (9,509 bytes) (Reverted edits by 67.131.235.220 (talk) to last version by MyNameIsVlad)
(del/undel) (diff) 01:56, 6 March 2015 . . 67.131.235.220 (talk | block) (480 bytes) (It seems like speedy deletion is not the way. Trying this instead.)
(del/undel) (diff) 01:51, 6 March 2015 . . MyNameIsVlad (talk | contribs | block) m (9,509 bytes) (Reverted edits by 67.131.235.220 (talk) (HG))
(del/undel) (diff) 01:49, 6 March 2015 . . 67.131.235.220 (talk | block) (9,718 bytes) (Undid revision 650068861 by Spearmind (talk) Already discussed on your user page. Please use the talk page to contest the deletion and let an admin decide.)
(del/undel) (diff) 01:46, 6 March 2015 . . Spearmind (talk | contribs | block) (9,509 bytes) (disagree with speedy deletion, prefer discussion, one user tries to get rid of people with origin Ghana?)
(del/undel) (diff) 00:17, 6 March 2015 . . 67.131.235.220 (talk | block) (9,718 bytes) (Copyvio)
(del/undel) (diff) 00:11, 4 March 2015 . . Oralofori (talk | contribs | block) (9,509 bytes) (→‎Career) (Tags: Mobile app edit, Mobile edit)
(del/undel) (diff) 23:43, 3 March 2015 . . Oralofori (talk | contribs | block) (9,506 bytes) (→‎Career) (Tags: Mobile app edit, Mobile edit)
(del/undel) (diff) 05:34, 3 March 2015 . . Oralofori (talk | contribs | block) (9,506 bytes) (→‎Career) (Tags: Mobile app edit, Mobile edit)
(del/undel) (diff) 04:47, 2 March 2015 . . Oralofori (talk | contribs | block) (9,545 bytes) (→‎Career)
(del/undel) (diff) 04:06, 2 March 2015 . . Oralofori (talk | contribs | block) (9,545 bytes)

Interestingly, the copyvio was reported by an IP. And as a treatement, it proposed speedy deletion of the entire article.
The page was restored by Spearmind.
The page was blanked again by the same IP.
The page was restored by MyNameIsVlad
The IP then proposed a different template and blanked the article
followed edit warring (which is never a good solution...)
Then deletion

Here is the report for Copyvio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_problems/2015_March_5

Rupert... do you feel like investigating the case ?

Ant

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Le 06/03/15 19:09, rupert THURNER a écrit :

On Mar 6, 2015 7:01 PM, "TheAfricanDream Oral.Ofori" <oralofori@gmail.com> wrote:

Come on Rupert, u want me to send you a list of ridiculous articles that have been sitting on Wikipedia for years despite how badly they are written, the poor taste of photos used and the sheer playfulness of their composition?

This is an attack, plain and simple to me. What was the issue with the Rocky Dawuni article anyway, why was that deleted and were any lies said about Thomas Mensah and Patrick Awuah in their respective articles too?

Am so done for right now guys, this is just too distasteful and very...

Respectfully yours,

Journalist/Publicist/Social Media Specialist/+12027069881 www.about.me/OralOfori

On Mar 6, 2015 12:50 PM, "rupert THURNER" <rupert.thurner@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Rex, if you try to do a couple of weeks admin work i e checking additions to articles, improving them or only mark them so the author improves them. it might give you a better feeling how hard it can be to follow up on compliance with the various rules. I bet that after a certain number of cases you d get a little cold hearted as well. But I can understand your feelings very well, I cannot even remember how many articles I created which got deleted because of not being long enough or failing some hidden relevance criteria.

Best,
Rupert

On Mar 6, 2015 11:34 AM, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah @massly the admins are deleting all my articles.

@all
Even if the article has copyright violations in them, an admin's joy of deleting articles instead of improving them is basically problematic for me.

I'm sure after deleting potential articles, they go to bed feeling, 'Oh yeah, I cleaned Wikipedia today. All articles that have slight copyright violations, I cleared them all. What a good admin I am.'

Then the following morning, the admin wakes up and finds stats about contributions from Africa and it goes like: "Oh dang! Africans dont contribute to Wikipedia at all. I wonder what they do with their time. Even this man, Patrick Awuah who's well known and the founder of Ashesi University, and Rocky dawuni who's a rock star even is not on Wikipedia. No way, Africans! You're not pulling your weight."

Then I look at the admin from above and say, 'sheesh, this is unfair!"

If admin's first priority is deleting potentially good articles, then I wonder where the "assume good faith" begins and ends.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith#Good_faith_and_copyright

I know there's another policy on Wikipedia hiding somewhere that conflicts equally the link above.

Happy Independence day to all Ghanaians, and admins deleting my articles relating to Ghana from wherever they are.

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015, 08:53 masssly <masssly@ymail.com> wrote:

@Rexford

And I just noticed Rocky Dawuni has also now been deleted. What's happening...

-Masssly

Sent from Samsung Mobile

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Date:04/03/2015 20:12 (GMT+00:00)

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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-GH] [African Wikimedians] Some IP deleting uploads and articles

And those elephants, instead of spending time chasing the not so good articles and high level crappy images on Wikipedia, they rather go on easy prey and articles relating to celebs not well known, of course because persons like myself are toothless and won't have anything to do.

Something I always envisioned happening as long as the whole of Africa has no Wikipedia admin to turn around decisions like these.

You know, its hard to think Africanish, if you weren't born as one.

Those elephants are interested in the unnecessaries and instead take fun in deleting articles with so much potential

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 20:08 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu@gmail.com> wrote:

Exactly... I believe this was one of the elephants we were trying to tackle at Wiki indaba right?

On Mar 4, 2015 9:57 PM, "Nkansah Rexford" <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:

How Wikipedia rolls? How does it? Deleting legitimate articles and images because someone at the other end dont know the true origin and considers every celeb image on Wikipedia to be copyright?

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, 19:55 bobby shabangu <bobbyshabangu@gmail.com> wrote:

Is that one of your policies too !!!

I used to be in flames and be super furious but after I realized how we roll I just chilled. So unfortunately this is how we roll don't worry just chill and keep on editing, the machines will decide if your edits are worthy to be part of sum of all human knowledge.

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Nkansah Rexford <nkansahrexford@gmail.com> wrote:

There are many policies on Wikipedia, and I also joined with my own policies.

One is, if a legitimate content I upload to Wikipedia is deleted by someone or something at the other end of the world, I dont and won't contest for its undeletion. Never!

I received these images listed here that has been marked for deletion ( see close to bottom of page) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nkansahrexford#File:Peace_Hyde_Mara_Mentor.jpg explicitly from either the celeb herself or from her manager.

They are nominated for deletion.

An article about Ashesi University's found that has seen about 200,000 views since it was started has been nominated for deletion on grounds that make no sense.

"Patrick Awuah, Jr." on @Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Awuah%2C_Jr.

Just saying.

Contributions from well meaning individuals go to fix the imbalance whatever of africa we all preach about, and IP addresses delete them without any substantive reasons. And no one cares. Feels to me machines do those deletions instead of humans.

Are machines taking over editing on Wikipedia? Or because of these weird activities, humans are no longer contributing their time, and rather bots and machines are taking over?

I'm in flames here!

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