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Foday Musa Suso (b. Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, Gambia) is a musician and composer from the West African nation of Gambia. He is a member of the Mandinka ethnic group, and is a jali. His primary instrument is the kora, but he also plays the gravikord and several other instruments. Suso emigrated to Chicago in the 1970s, being one of the first jalis to relocate to North America. He has performed with Philip Glass and the Kronos Quartet. He was also a co-founder of the fusion jazz band The Mandingo Griot Society. .

Jali Nyama Suso (born circa 1925; died 1991) was a kora player from Gambia. He had a program on "Radio Gambia" for 20 years. He had his first album in 1971 while he was teaching at the University of Washington. In the 1980s he toured in England, France, Germany, and Sweden. He also worked on the soundtrack for Roots (TV miniseries). Long before any of that he had been known in his native country. He did not fully live the tradition of a wandering musicians because he lost his leg at age 16, but by the mid-1960s became popular on...

Suso Saiz was born in Cádiz in 1957. He made his first moves in music playing in a folk band in his school. Later on, he got in the jazz' circuits at the same time he continued on his guitar studies in the Real Conservatorio de Música in Madrid. Afterwards, he studied Composition with Luis de Pablo. In 1980 he founded, together with Maria Villa and Pedro Estevan, the historical "Orquesta de las Nubes". Four years later he recorded his first album. Since then, Suso Saiz has became one of the most prolific and versatile Spanish artists: he has regularly...