Doudou diaye Rose

Doudou diaye Rose is a musician Percussionniste Senegal board.

It is one of the African musicians most famous of the 20th century, “the mathematician of the rates/rhythms, the large Master of the drums, able to direct hundred beaters on several rates/rhythms at the same time” .

Its instrument of predilection is the traditional Sabar, like its many alternatives ( saourouba , assicot , bougarabou , meung meung , Lamb, DER , gorom babass and khine ).

Biography

Of origin wolof, born in 1928 with Dakar, more exactly in an old district called Kaye Findive (current the Médina), it is resulting from a family of Griot S. His/her father who is accountant particularly does not encourage it in this way. However it expresses its interest for the Tam-tam and the African traditional percussions as of the 7 years age and the chance to meet El hadj Mada Seck, best the Drum major of the country, which will be its Master during several years. Nevertheless he attends the French school and works initially as welder.

Impassioned cinema, it also will see, in the Années 1950, all the films of Tino Rossi. The Symphony orchestra, the fifty violins and violoncellos which accompany the singer impresses it and he dreams to do as much of it, with his manner, in his country.

In 1959 it is noticed by Josephine Baker come in Dakar, which would have confirmed its vocation while saying to him: “You will be a large beater”.

The occasion to be distinguished to him is given on April 4th 1960 - day of the independence of Senegal - when he plays in front of the president Senghor, in the great stage of Dakar, accompanied by 110 tambourinaires. He then undertakes a tour through the country in order to consult the old ones and to profit from their knowledge of the traditional rates/rhythms.

He exerts later as pedagog of rhythmic at the National institute of Arts of Dakar and will be chief-drum of the national Ballets, at the point to be noticed by the choreographer Maurice Béjart.

One discovers it in France in 1986 when Doudou diaye Rose occurs at the time of the festival Nancy Jazz Pulsations, with his troop made up of about fifty beaters. He conquers a notoriety with the international level then. In 1988 it collaborates as percussionnist in the band of the Last Temptation of Christ of Martin Scorsese. The following year it takes part in Paris with the manifestations of the Bicentenary of the French revolution.

In 1993 it records a disc with Alan Stivell and other artists. It should be noted that it also occurred with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, the Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel and Kodo, a group of Japanese percussions.

It returns to the cinema in 2000 and composes the music of the film Karmen Geï of the Senegalese scenario writer Joseph Gaï Ramaka, a feature-length film inspired of the news of Prosper Mérimée, in which it plays also his own part.

In 2005 the career of this talented griot which created hundreds of rates/rhythms and invented new percussion instruments is crowned in its country with glare at the time of the second Gala of Recognition.

Discography

Its most known album is probably Djabote (Real World CDRW43), which includes/understands 12 titles recorded on the island of Gorée in March 1991. The recording was carried out in one week with its group of fifty drums and the choral society of Julien Jouga, a chorus bringing together eighty interpreters, exclusively women.

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