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28 April 2024
Funk devotees to take Wandi stage

TRENT Sterling can remember exactly when he received inspiration for The Seven Ups.

He was driving near Essendon Station in his early twenties when he heard Nigerian afrobeat musician Fela Kuti on PBS.

“I'd never heard anything like it,” the bandleader said.

“I was at music school at the time and went to uni the next day and said to my friend ‘we’ve got to play this music, we have to lear...

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