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Born in Accra, Ghana in 1982 MC/producer Samuel Bazawule AKA Blitz The Ambassador grew up immersed in highlife, jazz and afrobeat as well as the ubiquitous sounds of US funk, soul and hip hop. He moved to Ohio to study and began performing live, self-releasing his first album Soul Rebel in 2004. After graduating from college he moved to New York, releasing Double Consciousness in 2005. But it was his 2009 third album, Stereotype, again released independently, that would prove to be the breakthrough. Combining a full live band with West African flavours – The Embassy Ensemble – with hip hop beats and rapping, Blitz had begun to shape his own unique sound. The album was celebrated as a fresh new chapter in the international hip hop sound. Native Sun, released in 2011 on his own label Embassy MVMT brought the West African dimension to the fore and a soulful, political force to Afrocentric urban music.

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