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Bembeya Jazz National (originally known as Orchestre de Beyla) is a Guinean music group that gained fame in the 1960s for their Afropop rhythms. They are considered one of the most significant bands in Guinean music. Many of their recordings are based on traditional folk music in the country and have been fused with jazz and Afropop styles.[1] Featuring guitarist Sekou "Diamond Fingers" Diabaté, who grew up in a traditional griot musical family, the band won over fans in Conakry, Guinea's capital city, during the heady days of that country's newfound independence. Bembeya Jazz fell onto harder times in the 1980s and disbanded for a number of years, but reformed in the late 1990s and toured Europe and North America in the early 2000s.
included Stevie Wonder from United States, Gilberto Gil from Brazil, BembeyaJazzNational from Guinea, Mighty Sparrow from Trinidad and Tobago, Les Ballets...
version of his album The Boy's Doin' It. The Guinean band known as BembeyaJazzNational also recorded a folk song named "Mami Wata" for the album Hommage...
April 1973) was a Guinean singer and songwriter. He led the band BembeyaJazzNational from 1963 until his death. Aboubacar Demba Camara was born in 1944...
which granted the left bank of the Niger to France. Guinean band BembeyaJazzNational commemorated Ture in their 1969 release Regard sur le passé. The...
and Kebendo Jazz (also known as Orchestre de Danse de Guéckédou). Many of these bands recorded on Syliphone records. BembeyaJazzNational further enriched...
pioneers of jazz such as Abdullah Ibrahim and Chris McGregor, as well as other African musicians, including BembeyaJazzNational, OK Jazz, and Super Biton...
Tabu Ley and Franco from the Congo, Gilberto Gil from Brazil, BembeyaJazzNational from Guinea, and Louis Moholo, Dudu Pukwana, and Miriam Makeba from...
insisted that he join BembeyaJazz, Guinea's best-known musical group. Thus, in 1983, at the age of 19, Diabaté was asked to join BembeyaJazz, Guinea's best-known...
Retrieved 25 August 2017. "BembeyaJazzNational & Tabu Ley: Masterpieces From The Guinean And Congolese Belle Epoques". All About Jazz. 22 August 2007. Retrieved...
Sory Kouyaté, BembeyaJazzNational, Fodé Conté, and Kadé Diawara, in addition to hundreds of unreleased recordings by Guinea’s national and regional orchestras...
National de Guinée "as a praise song to the Guinean army". That version, "Armée Guinnéenne", was in turn adapted by the Guinean jazz ensemble Bembeya...
national broadcaster and home of the offices of the RTG." Recordings in the collection can be listened to by all. Balla et ses Balladins BembeyaJazz...
Fernando Gonzalez. The Washington Post - Washington, D.C. July 11, 2001. BembeyaJazz v Super Rail Band. Barbican, London. The Guardian, Tuesday 8 July 2003...
Nigeria; other artists appearing there included Osibisa, Miriam Makeba, BembeyaJazz, Louis Moholo, Dudu Pukwana, Donald Byrd, Stevie Wonder and Sun Ra. For...
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