Papa Susso plays the kora at the House Divided literary event, Cooper Union, April 2017.Mandinka Griot Al-Haji Papa Bunka Susso performing songs from the oral tradition of the Gambia on the kora
Alhaji Papa Susso (Suntu) is a griot or jeli, master kora player, and director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition. He was born 29 September 1947, in the village of Sotuma Sere in the Upper River Division of The Republic of Gambia, West Africa.[1] The Susso family represents a dynasty of traditional oral historians and praise singers. His father taught him to play the kora, a 21-stringed, lute-like instrument, when he was five years old. Papa Susso's ancestors were instrumental in the creation, as well as the development of the instrument for over two centuries.[2]
Alhaji PapaSusso (Suntu) is a griot or jeli, master kora player, and director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition. He was born 29...
(Odienné) Lamin Saho Foday Musa Suso Malamini Jobarteh Yan Kuba Saho PapaSusso Musa Ngum Bai Konte Amadu Bansang Jobarteh Dembo Konte Jaliba Kuyateh...
and kora musician Jali Nyama Suso (1925–1991), Gambian kora musician PapaSusso, a Gambian kora musician Henry Suso (1295–1366), 14th-Century German mystic...
Holman performs poetry on a periodic basis with griot and kora player PapaSusso. In June 2017, Holman performed with Serhiy Zhadan as part of the show...
is typically tuned diatonically and has a range of over three octaves. PapaSusso, Toumani Diabaté and Jaliba Kuyateh are renowned kora players famed for...
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Ry Cooder, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Taj Mahal, PapaSusso, Jiebing Chen, Simon Shaheen, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Philadelphia...
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