arguably the best kizomba music on this ish 💃🏿🕺🏾

معازف | مجلة الموسيقى الأولى والأخيرة من نوعها في العالم

Expressive singing and rhythmically rocking music define this unique and charismatic duo. With their groovy band they bring beautiful West African music with influences from reggae, mbalax, pop, folk, soul and blues closer to you. Their original mix of music styles has made the couple Sousou and Maher Cissoko a well-known duo on a number of different stages in Scandinavia, at everything from world music festivals to large pop festivals. Together with their live band they line up well-known artist from Senegal and Sweden who are also playing with the greatest artists in Sweden. Andreas Unge on bass, Sal Dibba and Dawcoumba Diop on percussion.

Since the release of their debut album Adouna (2008) and the second album Stockholm-Dakar (2011) they have been touring in Scandinavia, South Korea, Senegal, Mali, Tanzania and South Africa, performing at festivals like Peace & Love Festival, Gwanju World Music Festival, Sauti Za Busara, Festival Sur Le Niger, and also supporting artists like Toumani Diabate and Amadou & Mariam. They have performed several times in Swedish and Senegalese National Television and Radio. Awarded Newcomer of the Year 2010, Band Of The Year Nominee 2011 and Album Of The Year Nominee 2012 in Sweden’s World Music Award. For their achievements they have also been awarded City of Stockholm’s Cultural Grants and been supported by the Swedish Arts Council and Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Maher Cissoko was born to be a kora player in a great griot family in Casamance, Senegal, that has seen the art of kora playing being passed from generation to generation through more than 700 years. Maher has embellished the tradition and developed his own explosive and danceable style.

Sousou Cissoko, a singer from Sweden who is one of few female kora players in the world. She fell in love with the kora at an early age and travelled to Gambia by the age of 19 to study the West African medina traditions. Since then she has travelled many times to study kora, singing and guitar in West Africa.

The foundation in the tradition of the kora is to constantly renew and find your own way and that’s what Sousou & Maher are doing literally.Last winter they drove all the way from Stockholm to Dakar, a trip that has become the inspiration to new songs and the ability to see connections where others see boundaries. 

”Stockholm – Dakar, Sweden – Senegal, two different cities, countries, continents – and homes. In our constant travels we have come to the understanding that we do not move in between, but within. It is not a meeting or a union of two worlds or cultures but a musical voyage within the same sphere of people, rhythms and movements. And from there we find smiles and stories and compose songs and lyrics that we want to share.”

- Sousou & Maher Cissoko

تنشر سوريا على طول تقارير إخبارية وإنسانية وتحقيقات ومقابلات صحفية، من داخل سوريا وخارجها على موقعها الإخباري، وباللغتين العربية والإنجليزية. منذ عام 2013، قامت سوريا على طول بتوفير تغطية موثوقة عن سوريا في الوقت المناسب، وذلك من خلال تدريب الصحفيين السوريين والدوليين على جمع الأخبار بطريقة محترفة، وكتابة التقارير المعمقة دون تحيز. لمعرفة المزيد:  www.syriadirect.org.

Syria Direct publishes original news reports, features, investigations, interviews and multimedia journalism from both inside and outside Syria, on its bilingual Arabic and English news website. 
Since 2013, Syria Direct has provided timely, credible coverage of Syria by training Syrian and international journalists in professional news-gathering and unbiased, in-depth reporting. 
Learn more at www.syriadirect.org.

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