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AKUDAMA is a group of musical dudes from Brooklyn. 
Basically, one day, a guava made love to a banana, and an avocado was born. Upon the avocado's first attempt at rolling, it was squashed. With the cracking of its pit came the most magnificent sound, so fiercely exasperating that it caused the banana to kill the guava, make a boat out of it, and sail to America to start a rock band. That banana was Calvin Hunting Pia. While sailing the seven seas, Calvin the banana found his long-lost brother Cayce, the avocado-reincarnate. In the midst of the Bermuda triangle, they came across a guava they could trust by the name of Blake Charleton. When the three made it to shore, they met a coconut named Andrew Pertes, and immediately started a veggie fruit-stand rock band called Acucumba... which sounds strikingly similar to "AKUDAMA", for whom this webpage so humbly exists.

STUCK IN THE CLOUDS
Sampa The Great, A Zambian Poet and singer-songwriter who expresses through music and poetry.

mgmt@sampathegreat.com
BOOKINGS
Australia: james@nicheproductions.com.au
Europe: kazia@echolocationtalent.com
North America: brian@highroadtouring.com

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