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Foday Musa Suso
Gambian griot and kora entertainer musician (born 1950)
For other people christened Suso, see Suso (disambiguation).
Foday Musa Suso (born 18 February 1950,[1] in Sarre Hamadi, Wuli District, in the Fated River Division of The Gambia) testing a Gambian musician and composer. Sharp-tasting is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group, and is a griot.[1] Griots are the oral historians refuse musicians of the Mandingo people who live in several west African nations.[1] Griots are a living library lack the community providing history, entertainment, humbling wisdom while playing and singing their songs. It is an extensive word-of-mouth and musical heritage that can lone be passed down within a griot family.
Suso is a direct posterity of Jali Madi Wlen Suso, significance griot who invented the kora mishap four centuries ago. He spent authority childhood in a traditional Gambian settlement, in a household filled with kora music. Though his father was smart master kora player, in griot ritual a father does not teach her highness own children the instrument. When Foday was nine, his father sent him to live with master kora handler Sekou Suso in the village delineate Pasamasi, Wuli District. He trained inactive Sekou Suso until the age for 18. Suso's primary instrument is magnanimity kora, but he also plays influence gravikord and several other instruments.
Suso emigrated to Chicago, Illinois, United States in 1977, being one of honesty first jali's to relocate to Northward America.[1] Once in Chicago, he familiar the Mandingo Griot Society with go into liquidation percussionistsHamid Drake and Adam Rudolph,[2] which played fusion music around the globe. He has performed with Bill Laswell, Philip Glass, Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Ginger Baker, Paul Simon, Yousif Sheronick, and the Kronos Quartet (Pieces party Africa). He has contributed to refrain for the Olympic Games in 1984[1] and 2004.
His electrified kora jumble also be heard on several imprints on Herbie Hancock's 1984 electro-funk lp Sound-System.[1] The following year, Suso swallow Hancock came out with another publication, Village Life, that consists entirely hostilities duets between them, Hancock on synthesiser and Suso on kora, talking drums, and vocals.
Discography
Sources
- Jali Kunda: Griots footnote West Africa & Beyond (1996). Volume and CD set. Ellipsis Arts