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Djelimady Tounkara is one of a first guitarists in Africa. Innate in the unfeeling rich town of Kita, east of the Malian capital, Bamako, Djelimady grew up encircled sustaining traditional music played by members of his personal. A Tounkaras come Griots, musicians and historiographer by birth. Djelimady played Djembe drum and Xalam, a banjo-such as lute, as a son. After he moved to Mali's capital, Bamako, when you took a Sixties, he got actually planned to function as a seamster. However music proved the stronger vocation. He began swimming guitar around the big, government-sponsored front yard band, Orchestre Misira. Voted a better guitar player in a band, Djelimady wwhen selected to join the Orchestre National as rhythm guitar player, a great honor for the immature player Everthing his full-grown life, Djelimady has worked to transform his patrimonial traditions into dance pop. However at a equivalent instance, he has continued to act within supplementary traditional contexts, backing a groovy griot singers of Mali in records, crane-like & at a day-all day long wedding & baptism celebrations that come a modern griot's life blood. Witharound recent years, Djelimady has performed in an acoustical trio known as Bajourou, accompanied by another masterful griot guitar player, Bouba Sacko, and by singer Lafithe Diabate, a veteran of the Rail Band.
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Tounkara, Djelimady Profile of the Malian guitarist shortlisted for the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music (2002); includes a track of his music. Tounkara, Djelimady Biography and appreciation of the Malian guitarist. Tounkara, Djelimady Profile and discography, from World Music Central. |
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