Mamane Barka
Nigerien musician (died 2018)
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Malam Mamane Barka (1958/1959 – 21 November 2018) was a Nigerien musician, and one of the world's most prominent players of the biram African harp.[1] He died on 21 November 2018, aged 59.[2]
Born
1958/1959
Malam Mamane Barka
1958/1959
Died (aged 59)
OccupationMusician
InstrumentsBiram, Ngurumi
Mamane Barka | |
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Malam Mamane Barka playing an ngurmi African lute. | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Malam Mamane Barka 1958/1959 |
| Died | (aged 59) |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instruments | Biram, Ngurumi |
| Label | World Music Network |
Biography
Malam Mamane Barka was born in 1958 or 1959 in Tesker, a town in the east of the then autonomous republic of Niger. He came from the nomadic people of Toubou. As a player of the Ngurumi, a two-string plucked instrument, he gained popularity in his homeland and neighboring Nigeria. In 2002 he decided to devote himself to the study of Biram. It is a five-stringed instrument used by the Boudouma people, a fishing community on Lake Chad, for traditional songs.[1][3]
