Early Life
He was born into a blacksmith family of traditional Malinke drummers, and raised in the village of Oroko near Kouroussa, Guinea, West Africa. He learned from the age of eight all of his people's traditional drum music and dances as passed down from his ancestors. He was nicknamed "The Great Panther" because of his powerful sound on the djembe drum.
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