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Aldama has also credited the Beastie Boys' 1996 jazz-funk instrumental compilation The In Sound From Way Out! as an album that greatly influenced him.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe other members of Afrodizz include vocalist Vance Payne—who performs songs in English, Yorùbá and other languages of Nigeria—as well as François Plante (bass), Jean-Philippe Goncalves (drums), François Vincent (percussion), David Carbonneau (trumpet), Frèdé Simard (tenor sax), and François Glidden (baritone sax). 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