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Sep 16, 1948 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 06 Sep 2018 (aged 69)
percussionist and composer
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About Madeleine Yayodele Nelson
- Madeleine Yayodele Nelson ((1948-09-16)September 16, 1948 – (2018-09-06)September 6, 2018) was an American percussionist and composer.
- She specialized in playing the West African shekere.
- She also played the djembe drum, the mbira thumb piano and the calabash. She was the founder and director of Women of the Calabash, founded in 1978.
- The calabash is a gourd that comes from a fruit from Africa.
- Women of the Calabash gets its influences from Africa and the African Diaspora.
- Women of the Calabash is an ensemble percussion group that draws inspiration from sub-Sahara Africa, the Caribbean and South and North America using their own interpretations.
- She handcrafted shekeres, including for the Broadway show Fela!, in New York City and in London.
