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The Bahamas ( bə-HAH-məz), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the archipelago's population. The archipelagic state consists of more than 3,000 islands, cays, and islets in the Atlantic Ocean, and is located north of Cuba and northwest of the island of Hispaniola (split between the Dominican Republic and Haiti) and the Turks and Caicos Islands, southeast of the U.S. state of Florida, and east of the Florida Keys. The capital is Nassau on the island of New Providence. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force describes The Bahamas' territory as encompassing 470,000 km2 (180,000 sq mi) of ocean space. The Bahama Islands were inhabited by the Lucayans, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taíno, for many centuries. Christopher Columbus was the first European to see the islands, making his first landfall in the "New World" in 1492 when he landed on the island of San Salvador. Later, the Spanish shipped the native Lucayans to and enslaved them on Hispaniola, after which the Bahama islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, nearly all native Bahamians having been forcibly removed for enslavement or having died of diseases that Europeans brought to the islands. In 1649, English colonists from Bermuda, known as the Eleutheran Adventurers, settled on the island of Eleuthera. The Bahamas became a British crown colony in 1718, when the British clamped down on piracy. After the American Revolutionary War, the Crown resettled thousands of American Loyalists to the Bahamas; they took enslaved people with them and established plantations on land grants. Enslaved Africans and their descendants constituted the majority of the population from this period on. The slave trade was abolished by the British in 1807; slavery in the Bahamas was abolished in 1834. Subsequently, The Bahamas became a haven for freed African slaves. Africans liberated from illegal slave ships were resettled on the islands by the Royal Navy, while some North American slaves and Seminoles escaped to The Bahamas from Florida. Bahamians were even known to recognise the freedom of enslaved people carried by the ships of other nations which reached The Bahamas. Today Black-Bahamians make up 90% of the population of 400,516.The country gained governmental independence in 1973, led by Sir Lynden O. Pindling. Charles III is currently its monarch. In terms of gross domestic product per capita, The Bahamas is one of the richest countries in the Americas (following the United States and Canada), with an economy based on tourism and offshore finance.
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Bad Boys Need Love Too [2018]
Song | Duration |
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Bad Boys Need Love Too | 3:41 |
Earthtones [2018]
Song | Duration |
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Alone | 3:24 |
Opening Act (The Shooby Dooby Song) | 3:52 |
Opening Act [The Shooby Dooby Song] | 3:52 |
No Wrong | 3:49 |
Show Me Naomi | 4:06 |
No Expectations | 4:08 |
Way With Words | 4:21 |
Bad Boys Need Love Too | 3:41 |
Everything to Everyone | 4:46 |
So Free | 7:57 |
No Depression | 3:07 |
Any Place | 4:02 |
Like Butter [2018]
Song | Duration |
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Bad Boys Need Love Too | 3:42 |
Grace & Frankie [2017]
Song | Duration |
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Lost in the Light | 3:58 |
The Tribes of Palos Verdes [2017]
Song | Duration |
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My Love | 3:28 |
Way With Words [2017]
Song | Duration |
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Way With Words | 4:21 |
Bahamas Is Afie [2014]
Song | Duration |
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Waves | 4:22 |
Can't Take You with Me | 3:10 |
Bitter Memories | 2:28 |
All the Time | 3:54 |
Stronger Than That | 2:37 |
Half Mine | 2:16 |
All Time Favourite | 4:09 |
Like a Wind | 3:28 |
Nothing to Me Now | 3:19 |
Little Record Girl | 3:02 |
I Had It All | 3:41 |
All I've Ever Known | 6:15 |
Bahamas Is Afie [LP] [2014]
Song | Duration |
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Waves | 4:21 |
Can't Take You With Me | 3:20 |
Bitter Memories | 2:27 |
All the Time | 3:54 |
Stronger Than That | 2:35 |
Half Mine | 2:15 |
All Time Favourite | 4:09 |
Like a Wind | 3:28 |
Nothing to Me Now | 3:20 |
Little Record Girl | 3:03 |
I Had It All | 3:41 |
All I've Ever Known | 6:15 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Don't You Want Me | 3:19 |
Tis the Season [Starbucks] [2013]
Song | Duration |
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Christmas Must Be Tonight |
Barchords [2012]
Song | Duration |
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Lost In the Light | 3:57 |
Caught Me Thinkin | 3:00 |
Caught Me Thinking | 3:00 |
Montreal | 2:41 |
Okay Alright I'm Alive | 2:58 |
Okay, Alright, I’m Alive | 2:58 |
Okay, Alright, I'm Alive | 2:58 |
Never Again | 4:31 |
Overjoyed | 4:26 |
I Got You Babe | 2:47 |
Any Other Way | 1:03 |
Snow Plow | 3:01 |
Snowplow | 3:01 |
Your Sweet Touch | 3:53 |
Time and Time Again | 3:12 |
Be My Witness | 3:47 |
This Warm December: A Brushfire Holiday, Vol. 2 [2011]
Song | Duration |
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Christmas Must Be Tonight | 3:47 |
Pink Strat [2009]
Song | Duration |
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Lonely Loves | 2:02 |
Hockey Teeth | 2:35 |
Southern Drawl | 2:48 |
For Good Reason | 3:43 |
You're Bored, I'm Old | 2:41 |
Sunshine Blues | 2:21 |
Already Yours | 2:06 |
What's Worse | 3:29 |
Let the Good Times Roll | 1:34 |
Try, Tried, Tryin' | 3:56 |
Try, Tried, Trying | 3:55 |
Till the Morning | 2:00 |
Whole Wide World | 2:35 |
Alternative Sugar
Song | Duration |
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No Depression | 3:07 |
Unknown Album
Song | Duration |
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Snow Plow | 3:01 |
Overjoyed | 4:26 |
Southern Drawl | 2:47 |
Can't Take You With Me | 3:11 |
Be My Witness | 3:47 |
Time and Time Again | 3:12 |
Your Sweet Touch | 3:53 |
Any Other Way | 1:03 |
I Got You Babe | 2:47 |
Okay Alright I'm Alive | 2:58 |
Montreal | 2:41 |
Caught Me Thinking | 3:00 |
Lost in the Light | 3:57 |
All the Time | 3:55 |
Bitter Memories | 2:28 |
All Time Favourite | 4:09 |
Nothing to Me Now | 3:19 |
Little Record Girl | 3:02 |
Bad Boys Need Love Too | 3:41 |
Way With Words | 4:20 |
Don't You Want Me | 3:19 |
Own Alone | 3:15 |
No Wrong | 3:49 |
Christmas Must Be Tonight | 3:20 |
Whole Wide World | 2:35 |
Till the Morning | 2:00 |
Show Me Naomi | 3:50 |
Burn As Bright | |
Sobering Love | 3:05 |
Someone Forever | 3:42 |
So Free | 7:57 |
Amigo Bronco | 3:47 |
Ko ko ko | 4:05 |
Second Time Around | 2:50 |
Working On My Guitar | 3:15 |
Somebody Just Like Me | 2:34 |
Buzi daj - Baio Bongo | 3:31 |
Never Again | 4:31 |
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