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Brother Resistance

Contains 16 performances.

Brother Resistance or Roy Lewis aka Lutalo Masimba, born in Trinidad. He Helped to pioneer the rapso genre (rap meets soca) as co-lead vocalist of The Network Riddum Band.

Niebla & Forcione, Oku Onoura, Brother Resistance
21 September 1985 at
Horseshoe (52)
Fred D'Aguiar, Brother Resistance, Sharon Landau, Pat Condell, Leo Burley
5 July 1986 at
Market Porter (London - Southwark) (6)
Antonio Forcione & Eduardo Nieblo, Brother Resistance, Zolan Quobble, Sister Netifa
22 April 1988 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Midsummer Poetry Festival (1988)
19 June 1988 at
Covent Garden Piazza (2)
Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
African Dawn (with special guest Jewel Ackah), Masimba Rapso Poets, (Sister Netifa, Brother Book, Brother Resistance, Seko Tafari)
28 October 1988 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
John Cooper Clarke, Brother Resistance, Belinda Burton, Leonora Rogers-Wright
03 March 1989 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Lambeth Amenity Services
11 March 1989 at
Abeng Community Centre (London - Lambeth) (1)
Benjamin Zephaniah, Sister Netifa, Brother Resistance, Sista Culcha
27 October 1989 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Night of Poems for Liberation in the '90s
13 April 1990 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Part of the Seven Nights for Nelson festival, marking the end of Nelson Mandela’s 26-year imprisonment.
Midsummer Poetry Festival (1990)
23 June 1990 at
St Martin's Market Theatre (2)
Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
Bukky Leo Trio (with Gary Crosby & Brian Abrahams), Brother Resistance, Carlos Rigby, Sister Netifa
14 September 1990 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Brother Resistance & Steel Pan Man, Levi Tafari, Brother Niyi & Torera Mpedzisi, Sister Netifa
12 April 1991 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Freddy Macha, Rhythm Writers, Brother Resistance
22 November 1991 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Brother Resistance & The Network Rapso Riddum Band, Levi Tafari, Haji-Mike & Sugar, Sister Netifa
15 May 1992 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Midsummer Poetry Festival (1995)
18 June 1995 at
Victoria Embankment Gardens (8)
Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
Merle Collins
30 June 1995 at
Battersea Arts Centre (London - Wandsworth) (499)

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