What is My Country: Yodé and Siro and "Quel Est Mon Pays?"

Our random song for today is by Yodé and Siro, a duo from the Ivory Coast that formed in 1999 in the capital of Abidjan. The duo play zouglou music, a dance oriented style of music that mixes other styles of music such as zouk, ragga and soca music. The music also usually carries social messages, sometimes humorous and sometimes political and often offering advice on life. You can find this song, Quel Est Mon Pays?, on the various artists compilation Putumayo Presents: African Beats (2013).

Listen to songs like this and more on the KUNM Global Music Show every Monday night from 10 pm - 1 am Mountain Standard Time. Live streaming, program information and the two-week digital archive can be found at http://www.kunm.org.

Sources: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yod%C3%A9_%26_Siro