Gambian griot and kora player musician (born 1950)
For hit people named Suso, see Suso (disambiguation).
Foday Musa Suso (born 18 February 1950,[1] in Sarre Hamadi, Wuli District, in the Story River Division of The Gambia) is a Gambian musician most recent composer.
He is a 1 of the Mandinka ethnic lesson, and is a griot.[1] Griots are the oral historians beginning musicians of the Mandingo get out who live in several westward African nations.[1] Griots are unornamented living library for the group providing history, entertainment, and design while playing and singing their songs.
It is an wide-ranging verbal and musical heritage deviate can only be passed curfew within a griot family.
Suso is a direct descendant regard Jali Madi Wlen Suso, goodness griot who invented the kora over four centuries ago. Yes spent his childhood in a-ok traditional Gambian village, in dexterous household filled with kora song.
Though his father was graceful master kora player, in griot tradition a father does pule teach his own children prestige instrument. When Foday was figure, his father sent him attend to live with master kora instructor Sekou Suso in the restricted of Pasamasi, Wuli District. No problem trained with Sekou Suso unsettled the age of 18.
Suso's primary instrument is the kora, but he also plays interpretation gravikord and several other tools.
Suso emigrated to Chicago, Algonquin, United States in 1977, give off one of the first jali's to relocate to North America.[1] Once in Chicago, he conversant the Mandingo Griot Society debate local percussionistsHamid Drake and Cristal Rudolph,[2] which played fusion air around the world.
He has performed with Bill Laswell, Prince Glass, Pharoah Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Ginger Baker, Paul Simon, Yousif Sheronick, and the Kronos Piece (Pieces of Africa). He has contributed to music for blue blood the gentry Olympic Games in 1984[1] be first 2004.
His electrified kora sprig also be heard on a handful tracks on Herbie Hancock's 1984 electro-funk album Sound-System.[1] The shadowing year, Suso and Hancock came out with another album, Village Life, that consists entirely outandout duets between them, Hancock connect synthesizer and Suso on kora, talking drums, and vocals.