KALETA & SUPER YAMBA BAND

KALETA & SUPER YAMBA BAND

  • ALL AGES
  • Flying V productions

JOIN US for a night of dancing with KALETA & SUPER YAMBA BAND ! Bringing Afro Beats all the way from Brooklyn NY March 21st!

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By Flying V Productions
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Date and time

Fri, Mar 21, 2025 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM EDT

Location

The Broom Factory

305 Rideau St Kingston, ON K7K 3A9 Canada

Performers

Headliners

  • Kaleta & Super Yamba Band

Refund Policy

No Refunds

About this event

Brooklyn's Kaleta & Super Yamba Band

March 21st at The Broom Factory

Doors 7:00pm Show 7:30pm All AGES

Brooklyn’s Kaleta & Super Yamba Band are fronted by Afrobeat and Juju veteran Leon Ligan-Majek a.k.a. Kaleta. The singer/guitarist from the West African country of Benin Republic lived his adolescent life in Lagos, Nigeria where Afrobeat was born. Kaleta's guitar chops earned him decades of touring and recording with Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Lauryn Hill and more.

Kaleta got his start in the late 70s performing in church and was soon after picked up by iconic Juju master and world music pioneer King Sunny Ade. A few years later Fela Kuti came calling. Kaleta would go on to tour the world playing guitar for the King of Afrobeat in his storied band Egypt 80 through the 1980s and into the 1990s.

Now based in New York City, Kaleta has been leading Super Yamba Band since 2017. Their debut album "Mèdaho," which was released by California indie label Ubiquity Records, draws on the group’s shared reverence for the raw, psychedelic sounds that captivated Kaleta as a music loving kid in 1970s Benin. Mèdaho means "big brother," "elder" or "teacher" and is dedicated to Kaleta's late brother Ligan-Ozavino Pascal who introduced him to funk and soul music at a very early age. The album was included on Bandcamp’s “Best Albums of Summer 2019” list and two of the songs were chosen for the ABC/Hulu series High Fidelity starring Zoe Kravitz.

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