associated_acts death_date death_place years_active alias birth_place name birth_date instrument background genre article_title birth_name occupation
dembo a joint program between radio gambia and radio senegal -rrb- konte , malamin jobarteh , chossani senegambia -lrb- 1983 brikama , sanchaba , the gambia 1973 -lrb- big break -rrb- to 1983 alhaji -rrb- also alhaji bai konteh bai konte -lrb- after his pilgrimage to mecca the gambia bai konte 1920 kora solo_singer west african -lrb- world music , folk music -rrb- bai konte
 bai konte singer , genealogist , kora player , historian ,
bai konte

alhaji bai konte -lrb- born 1920 ; died 1983 -rrb- was a `` jali '' -lrb- praise singer -rrb- from brikama , gambia .
his father burama konte was the one who composed the anthem -lsb- `` boom '' -rsb- of the 19th century senegambian hero mansumaneh yundum .
it was from that anthem that the anthem of sheriff sidi hydara as well as nyansu mbasse originated from .
burama konteh was a well known kora player of his generation .
alhaji bai konte was a regular on radio gambia and radio senegal 's joint program called chossani senegambia -lrb- the history of senegambia -rrb- in the 1970s .
he and other prominent griots such as jali nyama suso and alhaji abdoulaye samba -lrb- on xalam -rrb- used to play live music during the show .
alhaji bai konteh had narrated many epics on that show including the epic of king abdou njie and his griot and advisor ibra faye .
prominent broadcasters of that show included alhaji alieu ebrima cham joof , alhaji assan njie and alhaji mansour njie .
following in the footstep of his father , bai konte also played the 21-string kora and is believed to have been the first kora player to perform and tour in the united states as a soloist , playing at the 1973 newport jazz festival .
-lrb- les ballets africains , a dance and music group from guinea , had first performed in the u.s. in 1959 , and featured a kora player . -rrb-
his sons dembo konte and sherrifo konteh -lrb- sic -rrb- live in brikama , gambia .
two lp recordings have been released of alhaji bai konte with dembo konte and malamini jobarteh -lrb- ma lamin jobarteh -rrb- .
`` jali '' sherrifo konteh has released two cds , ` mansalou ' and ` chesano ' , and tours the uk most years .
