Malam Maman Barka
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. He died on 21 November 2018, aged 59.
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Malam Maman Barka
- Birth Name
- Malam Mamane Barka
- Born
- 1958/1959
- Birthplace
- Tesker, Niger
- Place of death
- Niamey, Niger
- Occupation
- Musician
- Died
- 2018 · Niamey.
- Nationality
- Niger
- Languages
- French
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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. He died on 21 November 2018, aged 59.
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Malam Maman Barka (1959–2018) was a musician, a national of Niger. The musician was born in Tesker and died in Niamey. Languages used include French.
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• Birth Name — Malam Mamane Barka • Born — 1958/1959 • Birthplace — Tesker, Niger • Place of death — Niamey, Niger • Instrument — Biram, Ngurumi • Label — World Music Network • Occupation — Musician
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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.
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1959
Malam Maman Barka was born on 1 January 1959.
2018
Malam Maman Barka died on 21 November 2018.
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- 1.Sole, Deanne. Mamane Barka: Introducing Mamane Barka. Pop Matters. 18 May 2009.
- 2.Décès du musicien Mamane Mallam Barka ce mercredi à Niamey. aniamey.com.
- 3.Sadie Stanley. The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. MacMillan Press. 3. 885. 1984.
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