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I start drumming since I was five years old. As a young boy back home in Mali, where I’m from, you know, when you are a boy, your toy is a drum. So every time you cry, they just hand you the drum, and you just keep banging on it, and you don’t even know what you’re doing until you stop crying. So that’s how I start, so I had my first drum when I was two years old, and I start drumming around the age of five. And as I said, I come from, you know, a big family of the griot, and in the griot family, every day, people play, sing, and dance every day. So I grew up seeing people doing that every day…after each meal is the party time. So you see people playing, drumming, singing, and you just watch and you try to be part of it, and you know—that’s how you learn.


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