Malaysian DJ samples indigenous music to spread land rights message

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By Alisa Tang CHIANG MAI, Thailand (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Atama Katama had spent a decade through the 1990s DJ-ing hip hop at clubs across Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand when a fellow DJ asked him a question that sparked his curiosity about his indigenous roots in the Malaysian state of Sabah. “Your father is the Bob Marley of Sabah. Atama, who was born Andrew Ambrose but goes by the indigenous name given to him 12 years ago, likens his father, the late indigenous singer-songwriter Ambrose Mudi, to Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and Frank Sinatra.