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Shaped in Chicago, USA, in 1977 with the Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso (b. 9 Dec 1953, Banjul, Gambia), the Mandingo Griot Culture had been a flexible line-up of like-minded African, Caribbean and American music artists who performed a fusion of rock and roll, funk, reggae and traditional Gambian …

Experimental vocalist/guitarist Martin Bisi has produced Sonic Youngsters, John Zorn, Bootsy Collins, Expenses Laswell, and Afrika Bambaataa. His All IS GOING TO BE Won album presented Manager Hog’s Cristina Martinez. Sirens from the Apocalypse made an appearance in 2008.

Griot, composer, and kora get better at Foday Musa Suso loomed large on the worldbeat surroundings both before and following the Graceland groundswell. The single records of the relentlessly innovative performer and tireless ambassador of African lifestyle remained rooted within the meditative folk customs of his indigenous Gambia, but he …

Vieux Diop (pronounced “Via Jo”) is really a master from the kora, a 21-stringed device indigenous to Western Africa. A previous person in Youssou N’Dour’s music group, Diop offers toured with African percussionist Babatunde Olatunji and jazz music artists Jean Paul Borelli and Roy Brooks. Since emigrating towards the U.S. …