Eusèbe Jaojoby (born 29 July 1955) is a composer and singer of salegy, a musical style of northwestern Madagascar. As one of the originators of salegy and its variants malessa and baoenjy, he is credited with transforming the genre from an obscure regional musical tradition into one of national and international popularity. In 1972 Jaojoby started performing with bands that were experimentally blending American soul and funk with northwestern Malagasy musical traditions. He produced four singles with The Players before the band broke up in 1979. He rose to national prominence with his 1988 hit "Samy Mandeha Samy Mitady", recorded his first full-length album in 1992, and went on to release eight more full-length albums and tour extensively along with his wife and adult children. He was Madagascar's Artist of the Year in 1998 and 1999 and the UN Population Fund's Goodwill Ambassador in 1999.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1148:

The Siege of Damascus ended in a decisive crusader defeat, leading to the disintegration of the Second Crusade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Damascus_(1148)

1836:

The Arc de Triomphe in Paris, commemorating those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars, was formally inaugurated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Triomphe

1950:

Korean War: U.S. Army 7th Cavalry Regiment troops concluded four days of shootings of civilians, sparked by fears that columns of refugees might contain North Korean spies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Gun_Ri_Massacre

1981:

A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watched the wedding of Prince Charles and Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Charles,_Prince_of_Wales,_and_Lady_Diana_Spencer

2010:

An overloaded passenger ferry capsized on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasai_River_disaster

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

shipwrecky: 1. Characteristic of a shipwreck. 2. (figuratively) Weak, feeble; shaky. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shipwrecky

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Is it not a pity, Guivric, that this Kalki will not come in our day, and that we shall never behold his complete glory? I cry a lament for that Kalki who will someday bring back to their appointed places high faith and very ardent loves and hatreds; and who will see to it that human passions are in never so poor a way to find expressions in adequate speech and action. Ohé, I cry a loud lament for Kalki! The little silver effigies which his postulants fashion and adore are well enough: but Kalki is a horse of another color.   --James Branch Cabell https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/James_Branch_Cabell