Cello Festival ¦ Soloists ¦ Serigne C. M. Gueye
Born in Daker in Senegal in 1963, Serigne Gueye grew up surrounded by the music of West Africa. His grandfather was a percussionist with the National Ballet but was so often away from home that Serigne is largely self-taught. At the age of seven, he began playing at traditional ceremonies. His career as a professional musician began in 1984 with the renowned Star Band de Dakar, which allowed him to learn to play a wide range of other percussion instruments and to develop musical arrangement abilities and song. He toured in the USA and in Europe with the Star Band and other ensembles before joining Ifang Bondi in 1993 and playing on two of their CDs. He left Ifang Bondi in 1996 in order to explore jazz in greater depth and to search for ways to place his West African musical heritage in a broader context. He now lives in Amsterdam and works with many top Dutch jazz musicians, such as Han Bennink, Thijs van Leer, Sean Bergin, Franky Douglas, Eddy Veldman, Mola Sylla and Ernst Reijseger. He is a member of the bands Pia Piac and Mandinkabi and in 2002 joined Tobias Delius (saxophone, clarinet), Wilbert de Joode (double bass) and Hilary Jefferies (trombone) to form apa ini.
You can hear Sergine Gueye together with Mola Sylla and Ernst Reijseger on Thursday, 1 October at 10pm at Burg Kronberg.
Schlagworte: Cello-Festival, Sergine C. M. Gueye, Soloists
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