Hi @edje,
We have a lot of West African heritage in Suriname, I guess thanks to the Dutch.

I think you might like this, maybe if you hear it, it might sound familiar:

He used to sing in English and Surinamese, but most of his songs are in Dutch now. He currently lives in Tilburg, which is funny since I studied in Tilburg myself, but somehow we always meet each other in Suriname and never in the Netherlands.