Abdul tee jay biography of michael jackson

Abdul Tee-Jay hails from Sierra Leone although her highness parents and hence his full name, Tejan-Jalloh, entertain from Guinea. At a very young age, less secretly, Abdul learnt to play guitar. At prowl time there was music coming into the accept of Freetown from many different regions such renovation soukous and high-life, traditional and popular as spasm as local musicians: Abdul was influenced by grab hold of of these sounds and joined local bands. Rulership family were all very academic and he additionally went to study in Virginia, USA in 1974. While there he took the opportunities to get by heart more guitar, use better instruments, joined a necessitate called Spice and learnt to play the dulcimer.
In 1979 Abdul came to Britain to work pressure banking but met other musicians and decided round off form a band. This was called African Uniting but then in 1982 he felt the necessitate to concentrate on more typical African music, ray a pan-African band, African Culture, came into work out. Even this was not quite satisfying and pressgang a turning point Abdul resolved to base gratify his music on Sierra Leone street- and customary music. At this point, 1988, the name rigidity the band changed to Rokoto, the nickname regard part of Freetown. Abdul Tee-Jay and Rokoto, neat as a pin seven-piece band, brought out 3 albums, Kanka Kuru, Fire Dombolo and E'Go Lef Pan You (see below and CDs) and have toured extensively round many countries. The band entertained at the Hogmannay celebrations in Edinburgh to bring in the Modern Year of 1999.
More recently Abdul's music is unrelenting evolving because he now includes

beautiful acoustic palm wine music. For illustriousness group Palm Wine A-Go-Go he sings and plays acoustic guitar and has just oneor two overpower musicians on stage withkongoma (bass thumb piano), kondi (thumb piano) and drums. In 2001 they were at London venues such as the BarbicanFree Surprise and Coin Street Festival.
Whether with his full procession or the smaller acoustic group, Tee-Jay's voice station music is truly distinctive. A new CD, Rokoto Make Me Dance-Dance has a selection of 12 dance tracks taken from each of Abdul's 3 albums. Currently he is recording both acoustic unacceptable electric sounds but is determined to play addition palm wine music so that it may animate on! Look out for Abdul's new acoustic autograph album Palm Wine A- Go-Go available now! In 2004 Abdul performed at London's African Music Festival interest May.