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<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="add caption...">Max Rambhojan and his car. Image courtesy of Secousse.</small></p>
<p>"I was born in 1955 at Petit Bourg, Guadeloupe," Max Rambhojan writes to <em>OkayAfrica</em>. "I've been a Gwo-Ka musician all my life, I started as a kid with the legendary <strong>Guy Conquête </strong>who was hanging out all the time at my grandmother's house to try and seduce my auntie. He's the one who encouraged me to learn music."<br></p><p>"Later on I made 2 solo albums in 1985 and 1992 with the help of my friend and bandleader <strong>King Klero</strong>. This is where those 4 songs come from. In 1986, local TV channel RFO was playing 'Tou't Jou Pa Min'm' on repeat during half time breaks during the Football world cup. That's when I started being taken seriously as an artist. Those songs are still broadcasted to this day all over the French West Indies, and sometimes people tell me they heard them in nightclubs in France too."</p><p><div class="dfp_atf-slot" data-not-loaded="true"></div><script type="text/javascript">
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</script></p><p>"I still play the Gwo-Ka most week-ends in Guadeloupe, and I also host a radio show on Media Tropical Guadeloupe, 88.1FM. I hope you enjoy this music!"</p><p><em>Max Rambjhojan</em> is <a href="https://secousse.bandcamp.com/album/max-rambhojan" target="_blank">available for pre-order</a> and out February 18 from <strong>Secousse</strong> and <strong>Hot Mule Records</strong>.</p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><iframe seamless="" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3803453218/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/tracklist=true/tracks=3769906737,2713748673,4237720135,222735960/esig=2f3ab719131947e3fa7c5f1e3b30ddaf/" style="border: 0; width: 400px; height: 638px;">&lt;a href="&lt;a href=" http:="" secousse.bandcamp.com="" album="" max-rambhojan"="" target="_blank"&gt;http://secousse.bandcamp.com/album/max-rambhojan&lt;/a&gt;"&gt;Max Rambhojan by Max Rambhojan</iframe>
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