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Sia Tolno starts her second album, “My Life,” (Lusafrica), expelled in December, by belting a difference “Blamah Blamah” — not an explosion, yet it sounds like one, though a observance of a festival during a city in her local Sierra Leone that was after intended by a polite war. Now vital in Guinea, Ms. Tolno is a blunt thespian along a lines of Angelique Kidjo and Miriam Makeba, prepared for rugged exhortations or melting ballad lines. She doesn’t chop difference either she’s singing in African languages or English: “People they quarrel here and there for power/killing immature and clever group of a land,” she sings in “Odju Watcha.” Yet her songs float sleek, formidable studio grooves that pull from all over Africa and over — Nigeria, Congo, Senegal, a Caribbean — to find pleasure in headstrong resilience. 01/01/12
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