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The electro-funk master you've probably never heard of
Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne is this week curating the Meltdown festival in London, and he will be performing the music of a little known Nigerian musician William Onyeabor.
In the 1970s, Onyeabor brought the latest in synthesiser technology and self-produced several albums of hugely forward thinking music.
Then he stopped and the music died, until it was discovered 30 years later - by David Byrne's record label.
He told Matthew Price about the discovery.
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