RICHARD BONA
“Imagine an artist with Jaco Pastorious's virtuosity, George Benson's vocal ?uidity, Joao Gilberto's sense of song and harmony, all mixed up with African culture. Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you Richard Bona!" —Los Angeles Times
brief:
1967, Richard bona
(Bona Pinder Yayumayalolo)
At age 5 he was already playing the balafons and his ?rst music teacher was his grandfather
Richard Bona is a bass player, composer, bandleader, one-of-a-kind singer songwriter, and selfproducing digital and analog engineer
was born in a river called yalai in minta village,
Cameroun
He had his introduction to
jazz
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He has albums; Scenes from my life(1999) as the ?rst and Bona?ed(2013) as his latest release
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Jaco Pastorius
“Portrait of Tracy”
Richard Bona is a bass player, composer, bandleader, one-of-a-kind singer songwriter, and selfproducing digital and analog engineer
He has toured, played and recorded with a host of world class artistes; some of them include;
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Bona,
I come from a different place, a place where music has to be describing a story. When I was a kid, music was not music to us unless there was a beautiful story behind it. That's my background.
Manu Dibango, Salif Keita. Pat Metheny, Joe Zawinul, Didier Lockwood, Harry Belafonte Quincy Jones, Herbie Hancock, Chaka Khan, Mike Stern, Joe Sample,Queen Latifah, Branford Marsalis, Bobby McFerrin John legend and Sadao Watanabe
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