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One of my favorite masters of rhythm!

Doudou Ndiaye Rose is a Senegalese drummer, composer and band leader, and is the recognized modern master of Senegal's traditional drum, the sabar. He is—literally—the father of a musical dynasty which includes some of the most successful traditional musicians of contemporary West Africa

Perhaps his most well-known album, Djabote features 12 tracks recorded on the Isle of Goree in March 1991. It was recorded in one week with his group of fifty drummers and the Julien Jouga's Choir, an eighty-member, all-female choir. He has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, the Rolling Stones, Peter Gabriel, Kodo and Bill Bruford. He's also featured in the remix of "The Warning" by Nine Inch Nails. which was on the album "Year Zero Remixed."