Hi everyone!
I was wondering if there's African uke players here on UU, or if anyone knows of African musicians playing the ukulele? I'm interested in particular in Sahelian and Sub-Saharian West Africa, where people play some of my favourite string instruments.
I'm wondering because the guitar (both acoustic and electric) was successfully incorporated into West-African music and since then has been played in a completely african way (think Ali Farka Touré, Tinariwen, Habib Koité etc who are even quite famous abroad). So I wonder if there's people doing the same thing with the uke? If so, there must be interesting playing techniques or songs to learn from them!
All I know for now is that no one I personally know down there plays the uke or even as much as thinks about the instrument. And so far the only video I've found involving a ukulele was of two small kids lip-synching to Amadou & Mariam on Malian television, one of them pretending to play a red soprano (supercute, hehe!)
So if you know of anything, please let me know! Thanks!
I was wondering if there's African uke players here on UU, or if anyone knows of African musicians playing the ukulele? I'm interested in particular in Sahelian and Sub-Saharian West Africa, where people play some of my favourite string instruments.
I'm wondering because the guitar (both acoustic and electric) was successfully incorporated into West-African music and since then has been played in a completely african way (think Ali Farka Touré, Tinariwen, Habib Koité etc who are even quite famous abroad). So I wonder if there's people doing the same thing with the uke? If so, there must be interesting playing techniques or songs to learn from them!
All I know for now is that no one I personally know down there plays the uke or even as much as thinks about the instrument. And so far the only video I've found involving a ukulele was of two small kids lip-synching to Amadou & Mariam on Malian television, one of them pretending to play a red soprano (supercute, hehe!)
So if you know of anything, please let me know! Thanks!
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