Seydu returns to the global world music scene with SADAKA (THE GIFT)

Seydu — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 13:54:27 +0000

The great Sierra Leonean artist SEYDU returns to the global world music scene with a new album that will be released in September 2016 called SADAKA (THE GIFT), which has the same title as this first single.

SADAKA means THE GIFT in Krio, the lingua franca from Sierra Leone, Seydu’s country of origin. This country was one of the focal points of the slave trade in the eighteenth century and has also suffered a diamond civil war and an Ebola epidemic. Seydu continues the tradition of the Fulha troubadours and keeps the original music from Sierra Leone and Liberia alive, the
“Palm Wine Music”, or “Maringa” . He is considered the successor of artists like deEbenezer, Calendar & His Maringa Band and S.E. Rogie.

Seydu’s life has been a real odyssey, he escaped the war at a very young age in a small boat and arrived at the Canary Islands as an illegal immigrant, but thanks to his talent and generous heart he managed to find his own place in the European and Spanish world music scene, playing with renowned musicians such as Kiko Veneno, Yossou N´Dour, Mariem Hassan o Cesaría Evora

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Diamond Child, la escuela taller para los ex-niños soldados de Sierra Leona

Seydu — Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:18:55 +0000

Anthony Seydu Zacha-riah Jalloh gestiona en su ciudad natal una escuela-taller para reinsertar a ex combatientes y huérfanos, de la Guerra de los Diamantes, en especial ex niños soldado a quien ayuda a reinsertarse a partir de la música. El músico cantante, lutier, y percusionista lleva 30 años en España, donde se ha convertido en un prestigioso vocalista y percusionista que ha trabajado con los mejores artistas nacionales, entre los que se encuentran Kiko Veneno o Raimundo Amador.Hablamos con Juan Valero, Vicepresidente y fundador de + Árboles, quien inició «El camino de las ardillas», una marcha a pie por el Norte de España, con la intención de llegar hasta Tarifa. Nuestro compañero José María Pascual,nos invita a viajar a Moscú, con un libro de Dominique Lapierre.

Seydu Vocalist, composer, percussionist from Freetown Sierra Leone » Seydu Vocalist, composer, percussionist from Freetown Sierra Leone |

Seydu returns to the global world music scene with SADAKA (THE GIFT)

Diamond Child, la escuela taller para los ex-niños soldados de Sierra Leona