African singer Alpha Blondy was one of the world's top reggae artists during the 1980s and '90s. He was born Seydou Kone in 1953 in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), where he grew up with his grandmother Cherie Coco in the Jula (or Dioula) tribe. He got expelled from school for forming a band and not attending classes.
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