Mboup grew up in a griot family in Kebemer, north Senegal, playing the drums in the courtyard from the age of three "like every griot kid”. The tami (talking drum) was used to spread messages from ...

Né à Kebemer au Sénégal, Abdou Mboup s’est très tôt entiché des percussions traditionnelles au point de devenir l’une des grandes figures du Mbalax qu’il popularisera au cœur des années 70. C’est au ...

Chaque semaine, dans L'épopée des musiques noires sur RFI, Joe Farmer met en relief la diversité des couleurs sonores nées de la diaspora africaine dans le monde. Abdou Mboup symbolise idéalement ...

This Saturday you can celebrate the music of West Africa with a well-known percussionist as he performs in the Community Awareness Series for the Jersey City Public Library's Greenville branch, 1841 ...

San Juan, 12 oct (EFE).San Juan, 12 oct (EFE). — El percusionista senegalés Abdou Mboup encabezará desde este martes el grupo de músicos que participarán en el Primer Festival de Jazz y World Music en ...

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Members of the community clapped along as musician Abdou Mboup stomped his feet to the rhythm of his West African drum, performing a song he composed titled "Pride and Honor." "I am here to share," ...

Version 2 Version - A Dub Transmission, Laswell's fifth release for ROIR, brings us back to the elemental power that made Laswell's earlier releases so compelling: thick earthy basslines, a bedrock of ...

Bones & Tones (Freedom Art 52964) has something very good going on. Their first, self-titled album brings the effectively grooved percussion intricacies of M'boom with African elements and ...

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Abdou Mboup a longtemps servi les œuvres de ses contemporains. Sur scène ou en studio, il a accompagné Johnny Clegg, Harry Belafonte, Nina Simone, Claude Nougaro ou Manu Dibango. Installé aux ...