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'''Yaya Diallo''' (b. [[Fienso]], [[French Sudan]] (now [[Mali]]), [[1946]]) is a Malian drummer. He was born to a nomadic [[Fula people|Peul]] father and a [[Minyanka language|Minianka]] ([[Bambara|Bamana]])<!--I don't think Minianka and Bamana are the same--> mother and specializes in the goblet-shaped hand drum called ''[[djembe]]''. |
'''Yaya Diallo''' (b. [[Fienso]], [[French Sudan]] (now [[Mali]]), [[1946]]) is a Malian drummer. He was born to a nomadic [[Fula people|Peul]] father and a [[Minyanka language|Minianka]] ([[Bambara|Bamana]])<!--I don't think Minianka and Bamana are the same--> mother and specializes in the goblet-shaped hand drum called ''[[djembe]]''. |
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- For the Guinean guitarist and composer based in Vancouver, Canada, see Alpha Yaya Diallo.
Yaya Diallo (b. Fienso, French Sudan (now Mali), 1946) is a Malian drummer. He was born to a nomadic Peul father and a Minianka (Bamana) mother and specializes in the goblet-shaped hand drum called djembe.
Diallo was raised in a culture that works, worships, lives and breathes to the beat of the Drum. An instrument for transmitting traditional knowledge among the Minianka, the drum is the focal point of Diallo's life story and his link, through the universal medium of music, with the Western world. His educational background includes a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from the University of Montreal and training in a variety of African instruments: Minianka tam-tam, Conga, Senufo balafon (xylophone); and Mandingo tama, or talking drum.
Diallo has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe, and has appeared at the Starwood Festival (run by the Association for Consciousness Exploration). He is the author of The Healing Drum: African Wisdom and Teaching and the creator of a CD by the same name, and another entitled Dounoukan.