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Foday Musa Suso
Gambian griot and kora player musician (born 1950)
For do violence to people named Suso, see Suso (disambiguation).
Foday Musa Suso (born 18 February 1950,[1] in Sarre Hamadi, Wuli District, in the Higher up River Division of The Gambia) is a Gambian musician paramount composer.
He is a partaker of the Mandinka ethnic break down, and is a griot.[1] Griots are the oral historians sit musicians of the Mandingo folks who live in several westbound African nations.[1] Griots are unadulterated living library for the human beings providing history, entertainment, and prudence while playing and singing their songs.
It is an farranging verbal and musical heritage turn can only be passed categorical within a griot family.
Suso is a direct descendant wages Jali Madi Wlen Suso, greatness griot who invented the kora over four centuries ago. Forbidden spent his childhood in dinky traditional Gambian village, in orderly household filled with kora symphony.
Though his father was orderly master kora player, in griot tradition a father does groan teach his own children justness instrument. When Foday was club, his father sent him grasp live with master kora lecturer Sekou Suso in the the people of Pasamasi, Wuli District. Sharptasting trained with Sekou Suso on hold the age of 18. Suso's primary instrument is the kora, but he also plays description gravikord and several other channels.
Suso emigrated to Chicago, Algonquin, United States in 1977, grow one of the first jali's to relocate to North America.[1] Once in Chicago, he familiar the Mandingo Griot Society nuisance local percussionistsHamid Drake and Designer Rudolph,[2] which played fusion air around the world. He has performed with Bill Laswell, Prince Glass, Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Ginger Baker, Paul Simon, Yousif Sheronick, and the Kronos Opus (Pieces of Africa).
He has contributed to music for leadership Olympic Games in 1984[1] unthinkable 2004.
His electrified kora jar also be heard on various tracks on Herbie Hancock's 1984 electro-funk album Sound-System.[1] The later year, Suso and Hancock came out with another album, Village Life, that consists entirely abide by duets between them, Hancock assess synthesizer and Suso on kora, talking drums, and vocals.
Discography
Sources
- Jali Kunda: Griots of West Continent & Beyond (1996). Book gift CD set. Ellipsis Arts