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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Videos: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Momodou[/i] [br]R.I.P [hr] [b][size=4][url="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34001545"]Doudou Ndiaye Rose: Famous Senegalese drummer dies[/url][/size=4] BBC Online: 20 August 2015[/b] [img=left]http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/441E/production/_85083471_85083379.jpg[/img=left]Renowned Senegalese drummer Doudou Ndiaye Rose has died aged 85, his family has announced. Famous for playing the sabar drum, he toured the world and played with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and the Rolling Stones. He led an orchestra of more than 30 drummers, many of them his children and grandchildren. The UN cultural agency declared him a "living human treasure" in 2006 for keeping alive traditional rhythms. Rose continued to play up until his death and a few years ago explained how happy he was to have spawned a dynasty of percussionists. "I thank the good lord. My children have learned the language of percussion well," he told the AFP news agency in 2010. [url="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34001545"]Read Full Story[/url] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.