The Good Ones

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There is more than one artist with this name, including: 1) The Good Ones is a Rwandan trio. 2) The Good Ones is a project of American KillerPOP indie-pop musician Jack Cusumano. 3) The Good Ones was a band that was active in the early 1990s. 1) The Good Ones is a trio of Rwandan genocide survivors who play joyous, acoustic love songs written in the ancient local, Kinyarwanda street dialect of their nation's capital, Kigali. Adrien Kazigira, Stany Hitimana and Jeanvier Havugimana recorded the songs collected on Kigali Y' Izahabu over the course of one summer evening on the back porch of a friend's home. The primary obstacle to recording the group was that the musicians showed up with only one guitar for two players, and that guitar was missing two strings. Hitimana "played bass" on the 4-string and a beat-up acoustic was located for the second guitarist, the sullen, primary songwriter Kazigira who interweaves intricate harmonies with co-singer Havugimana.. In a style often referred to as "worker songs from the streets," these simple, direct and plaintive love songs speak more to the healing power of peace than a thousand academic treatises or preachy goodwill ambassadors ever could. http://www.thefader.com/2010/08/26/premiere-rwandas-the-good-ones-new-dead-oceans-single-sara/ 2) The Good Ones is a project of American KillerPOP indie-pop musician Jack Cusumano (fka Johnnie Angel) that is guitar-based indie pop/powerpop with a little synthesizer thrown in. 3) The Good O

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RWANDA, you should be loved

Kigali Y' Izahabu

Rwanda Is My Home

Where Did You Go Wrong, My Love

Rwanda Sings With Strings

Rwanda...You See Ghosts, I See Sky

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Soccer (Summer 1988)

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This Amazing Love Has Stayed With Me

Japanese Grandmother Digital Single

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The Farmer

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Agnes Dreams of Being an Artist

Umuhoza, the Worst Days Are Over Now

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