Nansady Keita

Music Worldwide invited Guinea Djembefola Nansady Keita to the UK in 2006 to join the Drum Camp teaching Line-up. Nasady is now engaged on other projects for Music Worldwide and has proved himself without doubt a master performer, teacher and session musician. We will be working with him over the next 12 months with educational, recording and live performance work.

A brief profile

Nansady was born and raised in the village of Sangbaralla in the Hamana region, the Malinké heartland of Guinea, and  also the birthplace of the Dundunba family of rhythms.

Nansady is the nephew of legendary djembe Master Famoudou Konaté, he trained with Famoudou and has toured Europe and Japan with Famoudou’s ensemble ‘Hamana Föli Kan’, teaches at his workshops in Conakry as well as performing reguarly in Conakry with his own group ‘Fankaba’. 

Nansady has performed and conducted workshops in Japan, USA, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and France.  He features on five of Famoudou Konate CDs including most recently ‘Hamana Föli Kan’ and ‘Hamana Mandenkönö’.  He is thoroughly well acquainted with the repertoire of traditional Malinké rhythms and songs from his homeland.

Nansady plays djembe, dununba, sanbang, kenkeni, krin, balafon, djiidunun, bolon, gongoma, dunsokuni and koworo, amongst other traditional West African instruments. He is a talented and patient teacher and his djembe playing is an absolute joy. 

For more infomation and booking enquiries contact:

Gary Newland at Music Worldwide on +44 (0)1263 735097 or email us through the link above.