Aba Diop

Aba Diop is a master percussionist, vocalist and composer in an unbroken ancestral line of Senegalese griots: the traveling artists, wisdom-keepers and cultural lineage-holders foundational to African societies. Aba Diop was born to play sabar. A griot’s griot, his father was griot, as was his father’s father, as was his mother’s father, and both his grandparents’ parents: wisdom-keepers of the talking drum. Even in Senegal, where Aba lives and w...