BRIGADIER SABARI

Created on 05/12/2005
Latest update on 10/11/2023

Artist: Alpha Blondy
Author: Alpha Blondy
Label: Syllart
Year: 1982

From the Ivory Coast. It's about a local police officer with a fearful law & order agenda. On single and lp Jah Glory for Ibrahim Sylla's Syllart label, reissued on Moya in '85.

Covers:

1984:

2 Belgen [as Opération Coup De Poing]

On vacation in West Africa, Rembert De Smet (2 Belgen, Esta Loco) saw a T-shirt in the streets of Lomé with the inscription "Operation Coup de poing". Later in a bar he heard these same words in a song on the radio. No one seemed to know who the singer was, so back in Belgium he made his own reconstruction. Still searching for the original Operation Coup de poing, an African record dealer in Brussels made clear that wasn't the title in the first place. No hard Feelings. Blondy thanked Rembert De Smet for the commercial boost he got with this cover.

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