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    she returned to her passion for radio and joined Radio Balafon as a radio host. In addition to her work at Radio Balafon, Dave also co-founded the production...
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  • CRTV Radio Nationale Private/Other 234Radio Abakwa FM BBC WS Africa RBN RFI Afrique Sweet FM Stone FM community Radio Ndop Magic FM RSI Balafon FM Equinoxe...
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    similar to the balafon. Messi's style was immediately popular, and his hits, like "Mengalla Maurice" and "Bekono Nga N'Konda," became radio favorites throughout...
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  • African and western drums, and local instruments such as the kora and the balafon. At their height of fame in the 1970s, the Rail Band played to sold-out...
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    and Tunisian musicians, who accompany her with the guitar, sanza, the balafon, the calebasse and bongos. Due to the civil war, she moved to France in...
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  • Traoré, a musician based in Mali, West Africa. Neba Solo plays a kind of balafon, a marimba with wooden keys mounted on a wooden frame and attached to resonating...
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    go beta" a hit aired on most Radio/TV stations in and out of Cameroon. In 2016, he received three awards at the Balafon Music Awards 2016 edition in Song...
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    instruments include the ngoni, a distant relative of the banjo, and the balafon. Famous balafon players include El Hadj Djeli Sory Kouyaté and, early in his career...
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    of several Malian music traditions such as her use of the ngoni and the balafon. It sold over 40,000 copies in Europe. On July 11, 2000, her second album...
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    Sissokho on talking drum and djembe and N'Faly Kouyate on vocals, kora and balafon. Just as the second album was getting off the ground, one of the group's...
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  • Fred Child (category American radio personalities)
    Balafón Marimba Ensemble, once opened for the Grateful Dead at Oakland Coliseum. In 2016, Child married Chinese-American composer Wang Jie. Balafón Marimba...
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    Musical instruments that are commonly featured in Keita's work include balafons, djembes, guitars, koras, organs, saxophones, and synthesizers. He performed...
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  • sources Gregory, Hugh. 1000 Great Guitarists. Rock, Jazz, Country, Funk ..., Balafon Books, 1994. Larkin, Colin. The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 3rd edition...
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  • bridge of his guitar, which made the instrument sound like a traditional balafon. Zanzibar's death in 1988 threatened to end the band's future, but they...
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    with a 12 piece West African ensemble that included kora, djembe, ngoni, balafon, bass, keyboards, backing vocals and percussion. The tour named as 'The...
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    Gregory, Hugh. 1000 Great Guitarists: Rock, Jazz, Country, Funk ..., Balafon Books, 1994. la Blanc, Michael (ed.). Contemporary musicians, Vol. 5, Gale...
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  • chimes, balafon), Ana Kravanja (violin, viola, ribab, kalimba, bendir, balafon) and Samo Kutin (ukulele, kalimba, tamburica, harps, balafon, sound objects)...
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    Fender Book: A Complete History of Fender Electric Guitars (Second ed.), Balafon Books, ISBN 0-87930-554-1 Duchossoir, A.R. (1991), The Fender Telecaster:...
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    who play a mix of traditional instruments including the kora, djembe, balafon, and bolombatto, as well as modern ones such as the guitar and electronic...
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  • groups. The group was founded in the southern city of Bobo Dioulasso by the balafon player, Mahama Konaté, a member of the Senufo ethnic group and a performer...
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  • Aviation man of the Year in West Africa during the 2019 edition of the Balafon Awards. Online, Peace FM. "Meet Captain Solomon Quainoo - The Ghanaian...
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    supergroup of West African musicians, which included Kélétigui Diabaté on balafon. Koité is known primarily for his unique approach to playing the guitar...
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  • trumpet, a multiphonic French horn, a variable tension double-bass, a giant balafon with frying pans and flower pots keyboard, a fire organ, plexiglas flutes...
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    broadcast on the channel Vox Africa in 2016. At the 2018 edition of the Balafon Music Awards, she received two awards, namely Female Voice of the Year...
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    stools, pottery, musical instruments, tanned skins, and wood products. The balafon, similar to a xylophone, is made out of the horns of animals. Innovative...
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    classified by the manner of playing as well as the bridge structure) balafon (slat xylophone with small gourd resonators) n'goni (4-7 string lute) dununba...
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    over five international accolades including Best Supporting Actor at the Balafon Film Festival in Bari, Italy (2008) and 2009's Best Actor in Supporting...
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    ISBN 978-0-87930-974-9. Bacon, Tony (2000). 50 Years of Fender. London: Balafon. p. 16. ISBN 0879306211. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fender...
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    In 2000, he formed the trio Mande Tabolo with an n'goni player and a balafon player. His 2005 album, Tomora, features Toumani Diabaté on kora, singers...
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  • (tracks 3, 10), guitar (track 3), synthesizer, drum programming (track 7), balafon, zither (track 10) Additional musicians Robert Smith – vocals, guitar,...
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