BUIKA, A Great Singer Come From Afar

  Buika’s musical story could be written or read as a fairy tale.   The black singer was born in 1972, not in a fare in Africa, but in Palma de Majorca (Spain), where her family, originally from Equatorial Guinea, had found a land of welcome which would bring them extraordinary happiness.  While it was Buika’s mother who first introduced her to the great voices of jazz, it was on the Spanish airwaves that she really discovered the music and developed a great love for it but especially for Spanish copla. However, before being initiated into the joys of glory...