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This is a list of musicians from African countries This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006) [1] [2] was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. [3] His music blends traditional Malian music and its derivative, African American blues [4] and is considered a pioneer of African desert blues. [5]
Diblo Dibala - Congolese soukous musician, known as "Machine Gun" for his speed and skill on the guitar; Mamadou Diop (also known as Modou Diop) - Senegalese rhythm guitarist, now based in the United States; Sona Jobarteh - Griot kora player, singer and guitarist from Gambia; Nico Kasanda (a.k.a. "Dr. Nico") - a pioneer of soukous music
African music also uses a large variety of instruments from all across the continent. The music and dance of the African diaspora, formed to varying degrees on African musical traditions, include American music like Dixieland jazz, blues, jazz, and many Caribbean genres, such as calypso (see kaiso) and soca.
This list of South African musicians includes notable individual musicians as well as musical ensembles whose members are South African by birth or nationality. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
His music combined traditional West African music styles with influences from both Europe and the Americas. [1] At that time, Keita was famous in Africa and had a strong fan base among connoisseurs around the world. Soro became his international-breakthrough album in 1987. [1]
Eileen Southern, Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Lester Sullivan, "Composers of Color of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans: The History Behind the Music", Black Music Research Journal, vol. 8, no. 1 (1988), 51–82.
African musician stubs (3 C, 203 P) Pages in category "African musicians" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent ...