Tag Archives: Sery Simplice

Simplice learned acoustic guitar as a kid, moving to Abidjan in 1966. He became a member of up with Pierre Amedee, and both tried to mix rumba music with folklore. Later on, in the middle-’70s, he and Ernesto Djedje produced the ziglibithy design, which was among the 1st natively created …

b. Feb 1949, Touba, Cote D’lvoire. Among Cote D’lvoire’s most well-known root base modernizers, vocalist and guitarist Simplice may be the leading exponent from the nation’s gbegbe design, a normal dance rhythm which has pass on significantly beyond its community origins towards the night clubs and dancehalls of the administrative …