dj.henri spins African and Caribbean sounds at venues including Summerstage, the
Apollo Theater, Brooklyn Bowl, and elsewhere. He’s been booked to open for World
Music legends like Salif Keita, Femi Kuti, Vieux Farka Toure, and many others, as
well as artists from DR Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, South Africa, Niger, Haiti, Senegal,
Cabo Verde, Ghana, Ethiopia, Morocco, Sudan, Gambia, Zimbabwe, Mauritania,
Cuba, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Antigua, and Benin. For several years, he opened
“Desert Blues” shows for the World Music Institute. His station Radio Africa Online is
the longest-running African all-music station online, he writes a column for
afropop.org, and his podcast, Radio Africa Online Mixes, is featured in Amazon
Music, Apple Podcasts, and elsewhere, enjoying more than 25 terabytes of traffic
annually.
