Cymande
Cork Opera House
★★★★☆
It has been a long road for Cymande. Formed in London in the early 1970s, the group fused funk, soul, reggae and jazz into a distinctive, Caribbean-rooted sound. Though they found some success in the US with the song Dove, they stopped performing by the late 1970s.
Then came an unexpected twist: their music was sampled and resurrected by hip-hop and R&B artists including Fugees, De La Soul and Wu-Tang Clan
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