Abdoul Doumbia & friends drumming on pearl st. mall Boulder CO.
Check out www.getyodrumon.com for more info Abdoul Doumbia was born in Bamako, Mali in 1963. Abdoul's home village in Mali is Foutaka Zambougou.The Bambara people in Zambougou are proud, hardworking, trusting, and welcoming people. He began playing Djembe at age five and completed a 16 year apprenticeship with Moriba Keita from Ziragori, Guinea. Moriba is the direct disciple of Daba Keita, the famed Mendianni revivalist. Abdoul was the lead Djembe player of Bamako's prestigious performance troupe Babemba for nine years. Beginning at age 19 he was chosen six years in a row to represent Mali nationally as their lead Djembe player. At age 26, he was brought to the United States by Brown University, where he was professor of African Music Studies for six years. He also taught regularly at Yale, University of Connecticut and Princeton. In 1996, he moved to Boulder, Colorado where he currently lives and teaches. Among maninka and Mandinka the term nyamakala encompasses four corporate entities of diverse origins: numu ( blacksmiths/sculptures ), garanke ( leatherworkers ), jeli or jail ( verbal and musical artisans ), and fun or fina ( public speakers expert in genealogy and the Koran ). These four nyamakala groups were part of the core of the Mande empire. Abdoul is a numu ( blacksmith/sculpture ). Powerful are the numus, who are primarily blacksmiths but also have several important association with music making. As sculpturs, numus carve jambe drums and are also associated <b>...</b>
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