Forced into exile from Sierra Leone, Nabay now makes his mysterious, mesmerizing music in Brooklyn. Janka Nabay: The King Of Bubu Music Janka Nabay is the king of Bubu music. That style has old roots ...

It was 2007 and I was co-producing my first public radio show for the series Afropop Worldwide, focused on the music of Sierra Leone. A BBC reporter had loaned us a plastic bag full of tapes and CDs ...

During the mid-’90s, Ahmed Janka Nabay traveled to Freetown, Sierra Leone’s largest city, to audition for “SuperSound,” a music-oriented TV talent contest not unlike “American Idol.” He had planned to ...

As a teenager, Ahmed Janka Nabay wrote his first song; improbably for an eventual émigré of wartorn Sierra Leone, his course has been a straight one since. His musical course, at least. In the past ...

Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang closed out the official events of the Chicago World Music Festival 2012 with their performance at Preston Bradley Hall in the Chicago Cultural Center on Thursday night ...

Janka Nabay, a singer, songwriter and bandleader from Sierra Leone who modernized an ancient tradition called bubu and carried it worldwide, died Monday in the Kambia district in northern Sierra Leone ...

Sierra Leonean musician Ahmed Janka Nabay has died at age 54. His label, confirmed the sad news with Pitchfork. Janka was the “Bubu King,” having helped shine a light on bubu music, a traditional ...

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PORTSMOUTH — Sierra Leonean singer Janka Nabay and The Bubu Gang will perform with support from improvisational guitarist Yonatan Gat Friday at 3S Artspace, 319 Vaughan St. With The Bubu Gang, a ...