Hk5183/Kourou Fia | |
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Background information | |
Born | Conakry, Guinea | November 13, 1976
Genres | Afro Funk Pop |
Instrument(s) | Bass Guitar, Kora |
Labels | Minuscule |
Kourou Fia, born Ibrahima Kourou Kouyate, is a Guinean Singer-songwriter born on November 13, 1976 in Conakry[1].
Born to a long line of griots, he was initiated very young in playing the kora, a 21-stringed traditional instrument, which his father first gave to him at age 5. He also plays bolon, a 4-stringed traditional instrument, traditionally used as a Bass. In 1993, he met the bassist Richard Bona, who convinced him to adopt the Bass guitar as his main instrument.[2]
With Ba and Keba Cissoko, his two cousins, Kourou founded his first group group "Tamale lalou" (The voyagers) in the beginning of the 1990s. The French trumpettist Gilles Poizat then joined the group. In 1995, Mark Ambrogioni, the director of production for the festival '''Nuits Metis''', had them play in Marseille. This was the first international experience for Kourou. They played with the violonists of the No Quartet in a musical mixture of Guinean and Western. .[3]
In 1999, the Ba Cissoko trio was born. Kourou and his brother Sékou joined the group. Ba Cissoko, the virtuoso of traditional Kora, was the leader of the group. Ils enchaînent alors les tournées internationales qui les mèneront à la sortie de leur premier album en 2004 : «Sabolan», qui sera suivi par 3 autres. Ils collaborent entre autres avec -M-, avec lequel ils jouent à Bamako. Ils l'accompagnent aussi dans le morceau «Mama Sam», dont le clip est tourné en Afrique. [4] [5]
Kourou Fia met the composer Philippe Eidel when the latter was producing the fourth album of Ba Cissoko, Nimissa, in 2012. S'étant bien entendus humainement et musicalement, Philippe Eidel réalise donc le premier album solo de Kourou, "Nene", recorded in Paris courant 2015.[6]
As author, composer and translator [7] :
As bassist[1] :
As Bassist for Ba Cissoko[1] :