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The Toe-Tapping King
The Citizen
|March 11, 2025
HITS: Charles Reveals His Favourite Songs For New Radio Show
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Kylie Minogue's The Loco-Motion, Ghanaian Highlife music and Diana Ross' Upside Down are the sounds guaranteed to get King Charles III on the dance floor, the UK monarch revealed yesterday.
The king has joined forces with Apple to launch The King's Music Room, a radio show in which he shares his favourite songs from around the Commonwealth, and beyond.
They reveal a surprising appreciation of disco, reggae and Afrobeats, and the songs which get the royal toes tapping.
The Loco-Motion, by Australian pop singer Kylie Minogue "has that infectious energy which makes it, I find, incredibly hard to sit still", Charles said as he introduced the song from Buckingham Palace, photographed behind a desk boasting an "On Air" sign.
He also explained how he discovered Highlife music "and the urge to dance to that pulsating rhythm" when he first visited Ghana in the '70s.
This story is from the March 11, 2025 edition of The Citizen.
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