It was 2007 and I was co-producing my first public radio show for the series Afropop Worldwide, focused on the music of Sierra Leone. A BBC reporter had loaned us a plastic bag full of tapes and CDs ...
During the mid-’90s, Ahmed Janka Nabay traveled to Freetown, Sierra Leone’s largest city, to audition for “SuperSound,” a music-oriented TV talent contest not unlike “American Idol.” He had planned to ...
Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang closed out the official events of the Chicago World Music Festival 2012 with their performance at Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday night ...
Forced into exile from Sierra Leone, Nabay now makes his mysterious, mesmerizing music in Brooklyn. Janka Nabay: The King Of Bubu Music Janka Nabay is the king of Bubu music. That style has old roots ...
As a teenager, Ahmed Janka Nabay wrote his first song; improbably for an eventual émigré of wartorn Sierra Leone, his course has been a straight one since. His musical course, at least. In the past ...
It was 2007 and I was co-producing my first public radio show for the series Afropop Worldwide, focused on the music of Sierra Leone. A BBC reporter had loaned us a plastic bag full of tapes and CDs ...
Over 10 years ago, the writer Wills Glasspiegel heard an album by Ahmed Janka Nabay at random, beginning a friendship that changed both their... It was 2007 and I was co-producing my first public ...
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