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The African Virtuosos contain three brothers in one of African music’s most influential families. Abdoulaye, Sire, and Sékou Diabaté result from a long type of griots, or troubadours, storytellers, and kora players. Although brothers’ mastery from the kora (a guitar-like device of African good) was anticipated, theirs was the 1st …
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In the aftermath from the Guinean Independence in 1958 as well as the encouragement of cultural satisfaction, numerous bands sprang up through the entire African country. Typically the most popular was Bembeya Jazz Country wide, shaped by vocalist Aboubacar Dembar Camara in 1961. Focusing on modern preparations of Manding traditional …
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