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The music of the Gambia is closely linked musically with that of its neighbor, Senegal, which surrounds its inland frontiers completely. Among its prominent musicians is Foday Musa Suso . Mbalax is a widely known popular dance music of the Gambia and neighbouring Senegal .
Pages in category "Music of the Gambia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Daniel Laemouahuma Jatta is a Jola scholar and musician from Mandinary, Gambia, who pioneered the research and documentation of the akonting, a Jola folk lute, as well as the related Manjago folk lute, the buchundu, in the mid-1980s.
Musa Ngum (or Musa Afia Ngum, also spelled as "Moussa Ngom"; born 1953 [2] in Fatoto, Kantora District in the Upper River Division, The Gambia; died 11 October 2015 at the Dantec Hospital (Fr.: Hôpital Aristide Le Dantec), Dakar, Senegal [2]) was a singer and songwriter who was very popular in Senegal and Gambia.
Mbalax (or mbalakh) is the urban dance music of Senegal, Mauritania and the Gambia.The musical style is rooted in the indigenous instrumental and vocal styles accompanied by polyrhythmic sabar drumming of the Wolof, a social identity that includes both the original Wolof people of the Greater Senegambia region and the urban panethnic identity that arose during colonialism.
Gambia portal; Music portal Musicians from the West African nation of Gambia. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total ...
Sona Jobarteh (born 1983 [1]) is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer.She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player [1] [2] to come from a griot family.
The music of The Gambia is closely linked musically with that of its neighbour, Senegal, which surrounds its inland frontiers completely. It fuses popular Western music and dance, with sabar , the traditional drumming and dance music of the Wolof and Serer people of Senegal .