The Lijadu Sisters: Afro-Beat Soul Sisters – review

It's about time the Lijadu Sisters' unique, punkish slant on 1970s funk, soul and disco got its rightful duesPerhaps it's not surprising that the Lijadu Sisters have spent the last 30 years languishing in obscurity. Life as a female artist in the 1970s was no barrel of laughs, wherever you hailed from. It was the era of an all-female rock band called Fanny and Gilbert O'Sullivan's 1974 hit single A Woman's Place, which, he reckoned, was in the home. Even at the height of punk, with Patti Smith...

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