African Griots Live
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Abdoulaye Diabaté
Abdoulaye Diabaté is a singer and guitarist who was born to Griot family in Kela, Mali in 1956. He has at least twenty years of experience in contemporary and popular music.
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Afel Bocoum
Afel Bocoum (born 1955) is a musician from Mali, noted as a singer and guitarist. He began his career as a member of Ali Farka Toure's group ASCO, and Toure is often regarded as his mentor. Both men come from the town of Niafunke on the River Niger, and are members of the Sonrai people. Bocoum is an agricultural advisor by profession.
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Ahmadou Kourouma
Ahmadou Kourouma (November 24, 1927 – December 11, 2003) was an Ivorian novelist.
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Alex Haley
Alex Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992) was an African-American writer. He is best known as the author of and the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
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Atongo Zimba
Atongo Zimba ia a musician and griot from Ghana. His tours in Europe, South America and Africa
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Ba Cissoko
Ba Cissoko is a Guinean world music band, featuring four members, two of which are playing the traditional Kora harp. The other two band members play percussions and bass, respectively. The sound of the band has been described as "West Africa meets Jimi Hendrix".
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Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal (born November 12, 1953) is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.
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Baba Sissoko
Baba Sissoko (born 8 March 1963 in Bamako, Mali) is a musician (tamani, ngoni, kamalengoni, bala, calabass) and vocalist. Sissoko is a master of the talking drums (the tamani). He is also a jeli by birth.
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Bakari Sumano
Bakari Sumano (1935 - July 21, 2003) was head of Malian association of griots (wandering poet-musicians) from 1994 until his death.
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Boubacar Traoré
Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes, Mali) is a renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Traoré also goes by the nickname Kar Kar, "the one who dribbles too much" in Bambara, a reference to his soccer playing: "a nickname I got from playing soccer when I was young. People would yell 'Kari, Kari' - dribble, dribble - the name stuck with me".
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Cheick Oumar Sissoko
Cheick Oumar Sissoko (born 1945 in San, Mali) is a Malian film director and politician.
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Dan Maraya
Dan Maraya Jos (born Adamu Wayya in 1946) is a Nigerian Hausa Griot best known for playing the kontigi.
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Dimi Mint Abba
Dimi Mint Abba is Mauritania's most famous musician. She was born Loula Bint Siddaty Ould Abba in 1958 into a low-caste ("iggawin") family specializing in the griot tradition.
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Djeli Moussa Diawara
Djeli Moussa Diawara, is born in 1962 in Kankan, Guinea. He's a Kora player (Korafola), a composer and singer.
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Djelimady Tounkara
Djelimady Tounkara is a Malian musician and one of the foremost guitarists in Africa.
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Foday Musa Suso
Foday Musa Suso (born in Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the West African nation of Gambia. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group, and is a jali. His primary instrument is the kora, but he also plays the gravikord and several other instruments.
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Fula people
Fula or Fulani or Fulbe (the latter being an Anglicisation of the word in their language, Fule) are an ethnic group of people spread over many countries, predominantly in West Africa, but found also in Central Africa and Sudanese North Africa. The countries in Africa where they are present include Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea, The Gambia, Mali, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea Bissau, Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger, Chad, Togo, the Central African Republic, Ghana, Liberia, and as far as Sudan in the east. Fula people form a minority in every country they inhabit, but in Guinea they represent a plurality of the population (40%).Total population 27 000 000.
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Griot (rapper)
Griot, also known as Brewz Bana, is a rapper from Basel, Switzerland. Formerly known as Mory, he released several records and mix-tapes, until he was finally signed by Universal Records Switzerland. He is the first hardcore rapper from Switzerland.
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Habib Koité
Habib Koité (born 27 January 1958 in Thiès, Senegal) is a Malian singer, songwriter and guitarist. His supporting cast, Bamada, is a super-group of West African talent, including Kélétigui Diabaté playing balafon.
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Hausa people
The Hausa are a Sahelian people chiefly located in the West African regions of northern Nigeria and southeastern Niger. There are also significant numbers found in regions of Sudan, Cameroon, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, and Chad and smaller communities scattered throughout West Africa and on the traditional Hajj route across the Sahara Desert and Sahel. Many Hausa have moved to large coastal cities in West Africa such as Lagos, Accra, Kumasi and Cotonou, as well as to countries such as Libya. However, most Hausa remain in small villages, where they grow crops and raise livestock, including cattle. They speak the Hausa language, an Afro-Asiatic language of the Chadic group.
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Jon Hassell
Jon Hassell (born March 22, 1937) is an American trumpet player and composer. He is known for his influence in the world music scene and his unusual electronic manipulation of the trumpet sound.
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Kunta Kinte
Kunta Kinte (also known as Toby Reynolds) is the central character of the novel by American author Alex Haley, and of the television miniseries Roots, based on the book. Haley described his book as faction - a mixture of fact and fiction. After Haley's book became nationally famous, American author Harold Courlander noted that the section describing Kinte's life was apparently taken from Courlander's book The African. Haley at first dismissed the charge, but later issued a public statement affirming that Courlander's book had been the source, and Haley attributed the error to a mistake of one of his assistant researchers.
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Lamin Saho
Lamin Saho is a kora player, vocalist and the leader of the band Roots and Culture.
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Mamadou Diabaté
Mamadou Diabaté (born 1975) is a kora player. He began playing quite early in his life, became known as a musician in the area of Mali in which he lived, and has since moved to the United States, recording several albums.
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Mandé peoples
:Often misused to refer to the Mandinka people, who constitute a branch of the Mandé: Mandinka people
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Mansour Seck
Mansour Seck is a blind Senegalese singer and musician born in Podor, in the north of the country. Best known for his collaboration with life-long friend Baaba Maal, he has also toured and released several solo albums.
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Mariem Hassan
Mariem Hassan (, born 1958), is a singer and writer of lyrics from Western Sahara.
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Mory Kanté
Mory Kanté (born March 29, 1950 in Kissidougou, Guinea is an acclaimed vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot (hereditary) musicians. After being brought up in the Mandinka griot tradition in Guinea, he was sent to Mali at the age of seven years – where he learned to play the kora, as well as important voice traditions, some of which are necessary to become a griot.
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Muhamman Shata
Alhaji (Dr) Mamman Shata Katsina (born in 1923 in Musawa village, Katsina State, Nigeria, died on 9 June 1999. He is a well-known Hausa musician in West, East and Central Africa. His vocals are often accompanied by talking drums, known as kalangu. He performed for the Hausa people of Northern Nigeria for more than half a century. He went to the Islamic school as a boy, according to Hausa Muslim tradition.
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N'Faly Kouyate
'''N'Faly Kouyate''' is a Guinean musician. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group of West Africa. His father was the griot Konkoba Kabinet Kouyate, who lived in Siguiri, Guinea.
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Nuru Kane
Nuru Kane (born Papa Nouroudine Kane) is a Senegalese singer/songwriter who plays guitar, bass and guimbri, a three-stringed Moroccan bass in the band Bayefall Gnawa.
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Papa Susso
Alhaji Papa Susso (Suntu) is a griot or jeli, master kora player, and director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition. He was born 29 September, 1947, in the village of Sotuma Sere in the Upper River Division of The Republic of Gambia, West Africa. The Susso family represents a dynasty of traditional oral historians and praise singers. His father taught him to play the kora, a 21-stringed, lute-like instrument invented by Susso’s ancestors, when he was five years old.
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Paule Marshall
Paule Marshall (born April 9, 1929) is an American author. She was born Valenza Pauline Burke in Brooklyn to Barbadian parents and educated at Girls High School, Brooklyn College (1953) and Hunter College (1955). Early in her career, she wrote poetry, but later returned to prose. She was chosen by Langston Hughes to accompany him on a world tour in which they both read their work, which was a boon to her career.
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Toumani Diabaté
Toumani Diabaté (born August 10, 1965) is a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he has also been involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles.
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Wolof people
The Wolof are an ethnic group found in Senegal, The Gambia, and Mauritania.
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Youssou N'Dour
'''Youssou N'Dour' (; born 1 October 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax. He is the subject of the 2008 award-winning documentary film '' directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, which was released theatrically around the world. The film won several awards including the Special Jury Prize at the Middle East International Film Festival.
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Bamako
Bamako, population 1,809,106 (2009 Census, provisional), is the capital and largest city of Mali, and currently estimated to be the fastest growing city in Africa (sixth fastest in the world). It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the Upper and Middle Niger Valleys, in the southwestern part of the country. Bamako is the nation's administrative center as well as a cercle, with a river port located in nearby Koulikoro, and a major regional trade and conference center. Bamako is the seventh largest West African urban center after Lagos, Abidjan, Kano, Ibadan, Dakar and Accra. Manufactures include textiles, processed meat, and metal goods. There is commercial fishing on the Niger River.
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Chad
Chad (, Tshād), officially known as the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country in central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon and Nigeria to the southwest, and Niger to the west. Due to its distance from the sea and its largely desert climate, the country is sometimes referred to as the "Dead Heart of Africa".
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Diffa
Diffa is a city and Urban Commune in the extreme southeast of Niger, near that country's border with Nigeria, with a population of 23,600 (2004). It is the administrative seat of both Diffa Region, and the smaller Diffa Department. Diffa marks the eastern end of the paved section of Route Nationale 1, the main east west highway across Niger, although the section between Zinder and Diffa is only partially paved in places. RN 1 continues north to N'guigmi more than 100km. Maïné-Soroa, the other major town of the Region, lies less than 100km to the west of Diffa. The border with Nigeria, at the Nigerian town of Duji, is 5.5 km to the south of Diffa. Diffa Airport lies to the north of the town.
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Gambia
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Guinea
Guinea (, officially the Republic of Guinea ), is a country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (Guinée française), it is today sometimes called Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from its neighbor Guinea-Bissau. Conakry is the capital, the seat of the national government, and the largest city.
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Ivory Coast
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Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (), is a landlocked country in Western Africa. Mali borders Algeria on the north, Niger on the east, Burkina Faso and the Côte d'Ivoire on the south, Guinea on the south-west, and Senegal and Mauritania on the west. Its size is just over 1,240,000 km² with a population more than 14 million. Its capital is Bamako.
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Mauritania
Mauritania ( Mūrītāniyā; ; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; ), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in North Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean in the west, by Western Sahara in the north, by Algeria in the northeast, by Mali in the east and southeast, and by Senegal in the southwest. It is named after the Roman province of Mauretania, even though the modern state covers a territory far to the southwest of the old province. The capital and largest city is Nouakchott, located on the Atlantic coast.
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Morocco
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Morocco (, al-Maġrib; Berber: Amerruk / Murakuc; French: Maroc), officially the Kingdom of Morocco (المملكة المغربية, al-Mamlakah al-Maġribiyya), is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of nearly 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², including the disputed Western Sahara which is mainly under Moroccan administration. Morocco has a coast on the Atlantic Ocean that reaches past the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Spain to the north (a water border through the Strait and land borders with three small Spanish-controlled exclaves, Ceuta, Melilla, and Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera), Algeria to the east, and Mauritania to the south.
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Niger
Niger ( or ; ), officially named the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, over 80 percent of which is covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of just above 15,000,000 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The capital city is Niamey.
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Senegal
Senegal (), officially the Republic of Senegal (République du Sénégal, ), is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa. It owes its name to the river that borders it to the East and North and that originates from the Fouta Djallon in Guinea. Senegal is externally bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south; internally it almost completely surrounds The Gambia, namely on the north, east and south, exempting Gambia's short Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal covers a land area of almost 197,000 km², and has an estimated population of about 14 million.The climate is tropical with two seasons: the dry season and the rainy season.
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Western Sahara
Western Sahara (Arabic: الصحراء الغربية, Berber: Taneẓṛuft Tutrimt, ) is a disputed territory in North Africa, bordered by Morocco to the north, Algeria to the northeast, Mauritania to the east and south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its surface area amounts to . It is one of the most sparsely populated territories in the world, mainly consisting of desert flatlands. The population of the territory is estimated at just over 500,000, over half of whom live in El Aaiun, the largest city in Western Sahara.
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- Ablaye Cissokko
- Afel Bocoum
- Ahmadou Kourouma
- Alassane Sarr
- Alex Haley
- Alpha Oulare
- Aly "Alisco" Diabate
- Arabic language
- Aristocracy (class)
- Atongo Zimba
- Ba Cissoko
- Baaba Maal
- Baay Bia
- Baba Sissoko
- Backa Niang
- Bakari Sumano
- Balla Fasséké
- Balla Kouyate
- Balla Tounkara
- Bamako
- Bambara people
- bards
- Bawa Abudu
- Berber languages
- Boubacar Diabate
- Boubacar Traoré
- Brian Eno
- caste
- central Africa
- Chad
- Cheick Oumar Sissoko
- Daby Balde
- Dagomba
- Dan Maraya
- Dembo Jobarteh
- Diffa
- Dimi Mint Abba
- Djeli Moussa Diawara
- Djelimady Tounkara
- Djimo Kouyate
- Dou Dou N'Diaye Rose
- endogamous
- Epic of Sundiata
- Etran Finatawa
- Foday Musa Suso
- Freestyle Fellowship
- French language
- Fula language
- Fula people
- Gambia
- Gokh-Bi System
- Griot (rapper)
- Guimba the Tyrant
- Guinea
- Habib Koité
- Hassaniyya
- Hausa people
- idiom
- Innercity Griots
- Ivory Coast
- Jon Hassell
- Kasse Mady Diabate
- King Ayisoba
- Kora (instrument)
- Kunta Kinte
- Lamin Saho
- Malamini Jobarteh
- Mali
- Mali Empire
- Mamadou Diabaté
- Mamadou Lynx N'Diaye
- Manding languages
- Mandinka people
- Mandé peoples
- Mansour Seck
- Marabout
- Mariem Hassan
- Massa Makan Diabaté
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Mory Kanté
- Mossi people
- Muhamman Shata
- musician
- N'Faly Kouyate
- Naré Maghann Konaté
- Niger
- Nuru Kane
- oral history
- oral tradition
- Papa Susso
- Pape Kanoutè
- Paule Marshall
- poet
- Portuguese language
- Possible Musics
- Prince Diabaté
- Professor A.L.I.
- Rokia Traoré
- Sahrawis
- Salieu Suso
- Sanjally Jobarteh
- Seikou Susso
- Senegal
- Serer people
- Sherrifo Konteh
- skald
- social rank
- society
- Songhai people
- Sundjata Keita
- Sura Susso
- The Grio
- Toucouleur
- Toumani Diabaté
- Vieux Diop
- Volker Goetze
- West Africa
- Western culture
- Western Sahara
- Wolof language
- Wolof people
- Xalam
- Yacouba Sissoko
- Youssou N'Dour
Griot feat. Ginjah - INNER CITY BLUES
2nd clip from the album STROSSEGOLD (universal switzerland).
Griot - Movement
New MusicVideo from the best rapper in switzerland. GRIOT BREWZ BANAA! SHOTTA MUSIC
SUNDIATA - THE HERITAGE OF THE GRIOT 6:03mns
6mns. Color. DVD This is the story of Sundiata, the legendary king of the 13th century kingdom of Mali in West Africa. Sung by a genuine griot (traditional oral historian)playing the kora, with a drummer, and illustrated with colorful paintings. Written by: Kenny Mann; Narrator: Afemo Omilami; Griot: Morikeba Konyate; Drums: Oginga Love; Paintings: Vern Edwards. This video is not for sale. Produced for Harcourt Brace Jovanonitch.
Brikama Griots
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- Duration: 9:45
- Published: 10 Sep 2008
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- Author: pinktoumani
Malamini, Pa Bobo and Bai Jobarteh - Kelefa Ba
Griot Lamin Saho( httt://www.duniyaa-recording.com ) - Peace, love and unity between the people.
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- Duration: 3:29
- Published: 22 Aug 2007
- Uploaded: 20 Jun 2011
- Author: wietsealie
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Lamin Saho, Griot from The Gambia playing a song on his kora. www.laminsaho.tk http Lamin Saho is a kora player, vocalist and the leader of the band "Roots and Culture". He lives in The Gambia and he is the oldest son of the famous Yankuba Saho, who was a griot also. There are a lot of kora players in the Gambia, but Lamin is very talented and he has the intention to keep the traditional kora music alive, but he has given it a personal touch. That's why the people in The Gambia love Lamin for his music. copyright reserved by Lamin Saho
Griot: He Who Speaks the Sweet Word
Griot 3 performs a live poetic commerical of their show "Griot: He Who Speaks the Sweet Word" Coming to the NYC Fringe Festival August 2006 www.griot3.com
Kora music from West African Griot lankandia cissoko
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- Duration: 3:40
- Published: 12 Jan 2007
- Uploaded: 29 Jun 2011
- Author: iasoRecords
Lankandia Cissoko, Mandingo griot from Senegal, performs traditional Kora music. Lankandia is from a distinguished family of traditional Mandingo musicians. For info or booking, email: info@iasorecords.com or visit our website: www.iasorecords.com
The Complete Garage - Griots Tech Session
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- Duration: 1:09
- Published: 13 Dec 2007
- Uploaded: 27 Jan 2011
- Author: BoxsterSGirl
Jim Roberts gets a lesson in how to wax his Boxster S!
Griot "Wievielmal" feat. Kaled Ibrahim
Griot neues Video "Wievielmal" feat Kaled Ibrahim. Album "Strosseparade" out 30.11.- Live Hallenstadion 28.11. (Vorprogramm 50 Cent)
Keita: the Heritage of the Griot
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- Duration: 6:36
- Published: 16 Mar 2009
- Uploaded: 15 May 2011
- Author: californianewsreel
To watch the entire documentary, to read background information and to order DVDs, visit: newsreel.org A young boy and his distant ancestor engage in parallel quests to understand their destinies and to know the meaning of their names. In so doing, Keïta makes the case for an "Afrocentric" education, where African tradition, not an imported Western curricula is the necessary starting point for African development.
Defiance, Ohio - Response To Griot
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- Duration: 2:26
- Published: 16 Jan 2009
- Uploaded: 29 Jun 2011
- Author: punkCDsampler
Response To Griot by Defiance, Ohio From their awesome CD, Share What Ya Got www.noidearecords.com Uploaded with the written permission of No Idea Records.
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love - Griot
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- Duration: 2:13
- Published: 11 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 18 May 2011
- Author: youssoundourdoc
Youssou N'Dour's griot heritage.
Salif ft. Ray Lavender & Da Griot - Bang Bang (Official Video)
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- Duration: 3:47
- Published: 18 Jun 2010
- Uploaded: 29 Jun 2011
- Author: thefirstblackviking
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Here is the official video from Salif (The First Black Viking) called "Bang Bang" featuring Ray Lavender (Konvict Muzik) and Da Griot. This is the first single off his debut album called "THE FIRST BLACK VIKING" dropping soon. Stay tuned! Track produced and mastered by Wayne Beckford Video Director: Maceo Frost Assistant Director: Lionel Cabrera Producer: Ellie Lundmark Executive Producer: Alexander Ingels Production assistants: Leonard Norling David Paullo For booking contact: thefirstblackviking@gmail.com For more infos go to: www.myspace.com www.myspace.com www.myspace.com
Haitian Griot: Part I
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- Duration: 4:56
- Published: 28 Mar 2010
- Uploaded: 18 May 2011
- Author: schaefferjason
Video shot with my iPhone of how I make one of my favorite dishes... Haitian Griot. This is day 1... what I use and how I make the marinade. ingredients: Pork Shoulder, Sour Orange Juice, Thyme, Pimento (All-Spice), Clove, Garlic, Scotch Bonnet Peppers, Bell Peppers, Scallions, Onions & Seasoned Salt
Senegal - Songs of the Griots
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- Duration: 10:44
- Published: 23 Mar 2010
- Uploaded: 21 Jun 2011
- Author: theprof1958
The songs are titled Kana Kumbo and Kelefa video is taken from the public domain and shows an African motor expedition (1936) www.archive.org
THE GRIOT www.griotmovie.com
Please support Tostan, a human rights organization based in Senegal. www.Tostan.org The Griot - Ablaye Cissoko directed by Volker Goetze After a thousand years, the west African musical and spiritual tradition enters a new millennium. This film follows ablaye cissoko, a senegalese mastersinger, kora player and jali, on his journey towards tomorrow.
The Empire of Mali Series: The Griot, Lesson 2
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- Duration: 6:32
- Published: 04 Feb 2009
- Uploaded: 22 Apr 2011
- Author: theshortieawards
Describes the West African empire of Mali's oral traditions (storytelling), government (kings), and economic development (trade). Standards of Learning: History/Social Science 3.2
Zaïre-Congolese Griot Ngeleka Kandanda
Musician, comedian, Griot, Mime, Ngeleka kandanda is an accomplished Congo-Zaire master entertainer. He was honoured by President Mobutu Sese Seko: Ordre National de Léopard
Griot's Garage Orbital Instructional DVD (1 of 2)
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- Duration: 14:14
- Published: 23 Aug 2010
- Uploaded: 16 Jun 2011
- Author: Crazyerics
A Griot Singing Senator
Mauritania's Malouma Turns Songs Into Legislative Work
Def Poet Sunni Patterson Live at The Signature: A Poetic Medley Show
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- Duration: 8:37
- Published: 31 Dec 2009
- Uploaded: 01 Jul 2011
- Author: TrippleCroxxEnt
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Sunni Patterson takes the siganture audience on a ride with a true "Solutionary". This a Prolific Performance was full of life, entertainment & love! November 2009 Season Finale. To be a Eyewitness was life changing! Dayton, Ohio
Djele Lankandia - Kora Music
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- Duration: 3:25
- Published: 01 Feb 2007
- Uploaded: 14 May 2011
- Author: iasoRecords
A traditional Djele, or griot, Lankandia plays a fast style of Kora music native to Casamance, Senegal. For more information, visit: www.iasorecords.com
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DJ Kool Herc - generally recognized as the father of hip hop
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N'Faly Kouyate
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Griot performs at Diffa, Niger, playing a Komsa (Xalam).]]
A griot (; ) or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African historian. The griot delivers history as a poet, praise singer, and wandering musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition. As such, they are sometimes also called bards. According to Paul Oliver in his book Savannah Syncopators, "Though [the griot] has to know many traditional songs without error, he must also have the ability to extemporize on current events, chance incidents and the passing scene. His wit can be devastating and his knowledge of local history formidable." Although they are popularly known as 'praise singers', griots may also use their vocal expertise for gossip, satire, or political comment.
Sura Susso (Gambia)
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Abdoulaye Diabaté (Mali)
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Cheick Hamala Diabaté (Mali)
Daby Balde (Senegal)
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Djeli Moussa Diawara or Jali Musa Jawara (Guinea)
Djelimady Tounkara (Mali)
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Dou Dou N'Diaye Rose (Senegal)
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Famoro Dioubaté's Kakande (Guinea/New York)
Kasse Mady Diabate (Mali)
King Ayisoba (Ghana)
Lamin Saho (Gambia)
Malamini Jobarteh (Gambia)
Mamadou Diabaté (Mali)
Mamadou Lynx N'Diaye (Senegal)
Muhamman Shata (Nigeria)
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List of Sub-Saharan African folk music traditions
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The skalds performed a similar function in Scandinavian societies.
Marabout, another caste of the indigenous African societies
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Hoffman, Barbara G. (2001). Griots at War: Conflict, Conciliation and Caste in Mande. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
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Jeliya - The art of Jeli (being a griot)
Griots today live in many parts of West Africa, including Mali, the Gambia, Guinea, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal and Morocco and are present among the Mande peoples (Mandinka, Malinké, Bambara, etc.), Fulɓe (Fula), Hausa, Songhai, Tukulóor, Wolof, Serer, Mossi, Dagomba, Sahrawis, Mauritanian Arabs and many other smaller groups. The word may derive from the French transliteration "guiriot" of the Portuguese word "criado," or masculine singular term for "servant."
In African languages, griots are referred to by a number of names: jeli in northern Mande areas, jali in southern Mande areas, guewel in Wolof, gawlo in Pulaar (Fula), "igawen" in Berber and gnawi in Hassaniyya Arabic. Griots form an endogamous caste, meaning that most of them only marry fellow griots and that those who are not griots do not normally perform the same functions that they perform.
Terms "griot" and "jali"
The Manding term jeliya (meaning "musicianhood") is sometimes used for the knowledge of griots, indicating the hereditary nature of the class. Jali comes from the root word jali or djali (blood). This word is also the title given to griots in areas corresponding to the former Mali Empire. Though the usage "griot" is far more common in English, some griot advocates such as Bakari Sumano prefer the term jeli.
In the Mali Empire
, Mali), 1890.]] The Mali Empire (Malinke Empire), at its height in the middle of the 14th century, extended from central Africa (today's Chad and Niger) to West Africa (today's Mali and Senegal). The Empire was founded by Sundjata Keita, whose exploits remain celebrated in Mali even today. In the Epic of Sundjata, King Naré Maghann Konaté offered his son Sundiata a griot, Balla Fasséké, to advise him in his reign. Balla Fasséké is thus considered the first griot and the founder of the Kouyaté line of griots that exists to this day.Each aristocratic family of griots accompanied a higher-ranked family of warrior-kings or emperors, which they called jatigi. In traditional culture, no griot can be without a jatigi, and no jatigi can be without a griot; the two are inseparable, and worthless without the other. However, the jatigi can accept a "loan" of his griot to another jatigi.
Most villages also had their own griot, who told tales of births, deaths, marriages, battles, hunts, affairs, and hundreds of other things.
In Mande society
In Mande society, the jeli was as a historian, advisor, arbitrator, praise singer (patronage), and storyteller. Essentially, these musicians were walking history books, preserving their ancient stories and traditions through song. Their inherited tradition was passed down through generations. Their name, jeli, means "blood" in Manika language. They were said to have deep connections to spiritual, social, or political powers as music is associated as such. Speech is also said to have power as it can recreate history and relationships.
Today
Bakari Sumano, head of the Association of Bamako Griots in Mali from 1994 to 2003, was an internationally-known advocate for the importance of the griot in West African society.
In popular culture
In the Malian film Guimba the Tyrant directed by Cheick Oumar Sissoko, the storytelling is done through the village griot, who also serves to provide comic relief.In the late novels of the Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma, Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote takes the form of a praise-song by the Sora, the Griot, Bingo to the president-Dictator of the fictitious République du Golfe. His final novel Allah is not Obliged also prominently features a griot character.
There are also references in the Alex Haley's book of a griot who passed his family history through oral tradition. When Haley traces back his history, passing from his previous generation through the slave time, back to Africa, he thought there should be griots telling his history and the history of his ancestor, known in the family as "The African", who was captured in the bushes when he was seeking timber to make a talking drum. When he arrived in Africa to do research for his book, he believed he had actually found griots telling his history. Through them he learned the ancestor's identity, Kunta Kinte. Since he had first heard the story from his grandmother and later refreshed by his older cousin, he believed that they were griots in their own way until someone put the story to writing. He later learned that his cousin had died within the hour of his arrival at the village.
In fact, however, this story illustrates the problems and complexities of oral tradition, especially when approached without expert knowledge. In 1981, it was shown (Wright, 1981) that the story of Kunta Kinte had been manufactured by a well-wisher. Following the publication of Roots, the story was being told in multiple versions with differing embellishments, having entered the stock of general stories.
In Paule Marshall's Praisesong for the Widow, the protagonist Avatara (Avey) might take on some of the characteristics of a griot, especially in her commitment to passing on to her grandchildren her aunt's oral story of the Ibos at the Landing, in which Africans brought to the U.S. Sea Islands to be slaves promptly turned around and walked back to Africa over the water.
Griot is the name of an instrumental track on Jon Hassell and Brian Eno's ambient music album Possible Musics.
Innercity Griots is the second album by Los Angeles Hip Hop group Freestyle Fellowship, released in 1993 through 4th & B'way Records. The group, consisting of four emcees: Aceyalone, P.E.A.C.E., Mikah 9 and Self Jupiter, received worldwide acclaim with their second project. Released during the prominent gangsta era of West Coast hip hop, Innercity Griots, along with albums like The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde and Del tha Funkee Homosapien's I Wish My Brother George Was Here, established an acclaimed era of alternative hip hop in California.
Malian novelist Massa Makan Diabaté was both a descendant and critic of the griot tradition. Though Diabaté argued on the one hand that griots "no longer exist" in the classic sense, he also saw this tradition as one that could be salvaged through written literature. His fiction and plays blend traditional Mandinka storytelling and idiom with Western literary forms.
Griot, meaning urban storyteller and teacher of history, is referenced by Professor A.L.I. in the first line of his 2010 single 'Guantanamo'.
Notable griot artists and groups
Griot Al-Haji Papa Susso performing songs from the oral tradition of the Gambia on the kora]] tree in the Réserve de Bandia, Sénégal, forms a living mausoleum for the remains of famed local Griots.]]
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