Ansumana Bangura

The original drumming of Sierre Leone was taken to Germany by ex-Miriam Makeba sideman Ansumana Bangura. Presently a instructor in Cologne, Germany, Bangura is constantly on the explore a deeply personal musical strategy, Fankadama, that mixes in from African folk music to Traditional western jazz, pop, and rock and roll. Drumming from age five, Bangura performed with Makeba’s Guinea-based music group through the entire 1970s. Relocating to Germany in 1980, he spent many years like a homeless drifter. He started to obtain his life collectively in the past due ’80s.