Artist
Afrissippi
- From Oxford, MS
- Formed 2002
- Type Band
- Members Guelel Kumba, Eric Deaton, Kinney Kimbrough, Justin Showah, Papa Assane M'baye
Listen
Start with Fulani Journey (2005) album, Debut album
Bio
Afrissippi is an Oxford, Mississippi band that fuses North Mississippi hill country blues with West African string-based music, led by Senegalese-born singer-guitarist Guelel Kumba and hill country blues guitarist Eric Deaton (an apprentice of Junior Kimbrough). The project grew from the discovery of striking similarities between Kumba's Fulani folk melodies and the trance blues of R.L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough, with Kumba singing in both English and Fulani
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