This week’s featured music is from West Africa.
Sona Jobarteh is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer from the Gambia and the UK. She was born in 1983[1] into one of the five principal Kora-playing Griot families from West Africa – she is the first female professional kora player[1][2] to come from a Griot family. She is the granddaughter of the Master Griot of his generation, Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, cousin of the well-known, celebrated Kora player Toumani Diabate as well as the sister of the renowned Diaspora Kora player Tunde Jegede.[3]
Born in London,[1] Maya Sona Jobarteh is a member of one of the five principal Kora-playing (Griot) families from West Africa, and the first female member of such a family to rise to prominence on this instrument. The playing of this 21-stringed harp-like instrument was exclusively passed down from father to son.[4] The instrument is an important element of the Mandingo peoples in West Africa and their playing is reserved only to certain families called Griot.[5]
She is the granddaughter of the Master Griot, Amadu Bansang Jobarteh (b.1915), who migrated from Mali to the Gambia. Her cousin is the well-known, celebrated Kora player Toumani Diabaté. Her mother is English (Galina Chester?). She has a son, Sidiki Jobarteh-Codjoe, born in 2010.[6]
She has studied the Kora since the age of three, at first taught by her brother Tunde Jegede, who is 11 years older, and with whom she travelled several times a year to the Gambia as a child, and then by her father, Sanjally Jobarteh. She attended the Royal College of Music, where she studied cello, piano and harpsichord, and soon after went on to the Purcell School of Music to study composition.[1][7] She also completed a degree at SOAS, University of London. She is fluent in Manding.
Check out Sona’s official website here.
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OT but breaking. Jimmy Carter has broken his hip from a fall at home, underwent surgery this morning.
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Delinquent housewife: Felicity Huffman pleads guilty in deal with prosecutors that will land her in prison for at least FOUR months and require her to pay a $20,000 fine
Felicity Huffman entered a plea of guilty to a single charge of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and honest services mail fraud
She was facing a maximum of 20 years in imprison, but prosecutors recommended she serve just four months
By CHRIS SPARGO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 10:55 EDT, 13 May 2019 | UPDATED: 15:23 EDT, 13 May 2019
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Chinese exporters to the US do not pay one penny of Trumps tariffs. US importers pay all tariffs which are then paid for by US consumers.
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