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BBC World Service DJ Charlie Gillett has died after a long illness at the age of 68.

BBC World Service DJ Charlie Gillett - the man who helped coin the term "world music" - has died after a long illness at the age of 68.

BBC World Service DJ Charlie Gillett - the man who helped coin the term "world music" - has died after a long illness at the age of 68.

The Lancashire-born broadcaster passed away in a London hospital on Wednesday 17 March 2010.

Gillett is credited with discovering Dire Straits in 1976 after playing Sultans of Swing from their demo tape on his Radio London show Honky Tonk.

He also wrote an acclaimed history of rock 'n' roll, The Sound of the City, in the 1970s.

World Service director Peter Horrocks said Gillett was an inspiration whose spirit of adventure and passion for the rich diversity of global music opened the ears of the world.

"His broadcasts brought together music and radio fans from far flung corners of the globe," he said.

"His postbag was one of the biggest, most affectionate and diverse in Bush House, which confirmed his special place in listener's lives. He was a very special broadcaster and he will be sorely missed."

Charlie Gillett's World of Music

Charlie Gillett's World Of Music: 20/06/2009

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BBC World Service - Charlie Gillett's World Of Music, 20/06/2009

Music from Madagascar, Ethiopia/UK, Hungary, Brazil, Senegal and Israel.

Contemporary and classic tracks from around the world. Playlist at bbcworldservice.com

Charlie starts with two songs which seem to have travelled in opposite directions: Malagasy vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist Kilema went to Europe to make his album Mena, while Dan Harper left the UK to seek out musicians in Ethiopia and beyond to make his CD Punt: Made in Ethiopia. Hungarian singer Beata Palya underscores the polyglot nature of 21st century Europe with Adieu Les Complexes. 

Brazilian 7-piece band Guardaloop was hatched by the drummer Hugo Carranca who says that he “was saving sonorous ideas in his sampler from his neighbourhood Guadalupe, in Olinda. The name of the band [refers to] the name of his neighbourhood Guadalupe and at the same time to the main function of a sampler: to keep loops.” Plus a classic track by Baaba Maal with Mansour Seck and new music from UK-Israeli double-bass player Daphna Sadeh.

Country:	Madagascar
Title:	Nanitsanitsa
Artist:	Kilema
CD Title:	Mena
Label:	Snail 
Cat. Number:	SR 66010

Country:	Ethiopia/UK
Title:	Hode Baba
Artist:	Invisible System
CD Title:	Punt: Made in Ethiopia
Label:	Harper Diabate 
Cat. Number:	HD001

Country:	Hungary
Title:	Szép Szemü Szeretöm
Artist:	Beáta Palya
CD Title:	Adieu Les Complexes
Label:	Naïve
Cat. Number:	WN145120
	
Country:	Brazil
Title:	Ilha do amor
Artist:	Guardaloop
CD Title:	Guardaloop
Label:	SMD
Cat. Number:	AA1000
	
Country:	Senegal
Title:	Laam Tooro
Artist:	Baaba Maal/Mansour Seck
CD Title:	Djam Leelii
Label:	Palm Pictures
Cat. Number:	YOFFCD0001
	
Country:	Israel
Title:	Avinu
Artist:	Daphna Sadeh
CD Title:	Reconciliation
Label:	Tzadik
Cat. Number:	TZ 8134

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