{"id":42051,"date":"2019-01-16T16:51:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T14:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/totos-africa-to-play-for-all-eternity-in-namib-desert\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:36:35","slug":"totos-africa-to-play-for-all-eternity-in-namib-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/totos-africa-to-play-for-all-eternity-in-namib-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Toto&#8217;s &#8216;Africa&#8217; to play for all eternity in Namib desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><span class=\"pam-featured-content\"  style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19892 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/africa-toto-forever-desert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/africa-toto-forever-desert.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/africa-toto-forever-desert-759x506.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/africa-toto-forever-desert-661x441.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/africa-toto-forever-desert-465x310.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/africa-toto-forever-desert-375x250.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Repeat mode activated.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>One of the most listened-to songs &#8211; Africa by Toto &#8211; will stand in the world&#8217;s oldest desert. Namibian artist Max Siedentopf has set up a sound installation in the coastal Namib Desert to play on loop, in tribute to the soft rock classic.<\/p>\n<p>The 1982 track is quadruple platinum, and was the most streamed song in 2017, with over 440m views on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Siedentopf tells the BBC it is set to play forever, with solar batteries &#8220;to keep Toto going for all eternity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The almost five-minute song has remained popular in today&#8217;s pop culture, and has been subject to memes and even entire Reddit pages. Recently, the track was sampled for a Pitbull song from Aquaman movie.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FTQbiNvZqaY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Read next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/5-nigerian-classics-albums-of-the-80s\/\">5 Nigerian classics albums of the 80s<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repeat mode activated. One of the most listened-to songs &#8211; Africa by Toto &#8211; will stand in the world&#8217;s oldest desert. 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