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Sep 29, 1947 Sotuma, Gambia 76 years old
Gambian musician
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About Papa Susso
- Alhaji Papa Susso (Suntu) is a griot or jeli, master kora player, and director of the Koriya Musa Center for Research in Oral Tradition.
- He was born 29 September 1947, in the village of Sotuma Sere in the Upper River Division of The Republic of Gambia, West Africa.
- The Susso family represents a dynasty of traditional oral historians and praise singers.
- His father taught him to play the kora, a 21-stringed, lute-like instrument, when he was five years old.
- Papa Susso's ancestors were instrumental in the creation, as well as the development of the instrument for over two centuries.
