Sona Jobarteh interviewed by Giovanca (live @TivoliVredenburg Utrecht) 

Yes 🤔

The beauty within her is magnificent

Gambian and British mix

She is beautiful princess

she is obviously incredibly thoughtful and intelligent, a fantastic ambassador as well as musician

Educating for future generatións! That s legacy !!

In this way it remains pure. The art of the culture is sacred so to preserve its legacy is a beautiful thing. It is a beautiful instrument handed down by beautiful people. I love the language. Totally agree with you on this thing very much. Blessings and peace to 🇬🇲 and her traditions and beloved people.

You either didn't listen or ignored the significance of what she said. I love her music, but she said that music was created for Kings, royalty and the privileged. Kings, royalty and the privileged are NOT deeper than anything. And the only reason that she learned to play the kora was because she was born into a privileged family. The "Griyo" families she talked about passed it on only to members of privileged families, but hopefully the students she teaches are not all from privileged families. Hopefully she has passed the future of it to some impoverished peasants, but I doubt it. The rich and the connected seem to always get everything.

@@navigator3744 The eternal socialist! Is it a crime to be priviledged.? Now you lost the privilege to influence her to teach the impoverished kids. Even if she does, you might still doubt her motives. I say that because you already negative that she is born into a privileged family !

@@navigator3744 I would like to correct you here. If I understand what you are trying to say, it’s not like you have to be privileged to learn the music. Being griot is not being privileged. Most of their kids follow the tradition. When it comes to griot families in africa there is no poverty or privilege or being rich. The griots griots kids grow up with their parents singing and playing instruments around them and they teach their kids. All boys plays an instrument either guitar, drums, Kora, balafon. Tamani. Flute or ngoni. The music is not play just for royalty, it’s for the whole society. ( I’m sorry I have to say that griots are lower cast like the blacksmiths and people who work with leather. They sing for the nobles, praise them and get money. That’s how they make money and many are very rich nowaday, and I’m sure most of the students in her school in africa are from griot families because I know the nobles ( sorry) won’t allow their kids to sing or play instruments. That’s ok in Europe but not in the Mandé tradition. Griots are bien griots, like filaniw are born Fulani to be cattle owners, Bambaras to be farmers, sarakole to be merchants, .... everyone has a place in the society . It’s different from some other countries and Europe but not in a few part in africa, like Mali, Guinee, part of Senegal and Gambia , Ivory Coast, burkina and maybe mauritania

what is the specific music called i want to hear more

Allen Higginbottom .. she’s amazing I’m proud of her doing big things for Gambia 🇬🇲 blessings sona

She's my best friends mum

@@matter8293 Who of them?

Absolutely beautiful Queens. Loved the entire interview & music.😚❤💕

Beautiful women. And I'm talking physically as well as mentally.

Si Edita

He might be jaliba kuyateh

Jambo !

More amazingly that she was born in England.

Truly. She was so correct when she said it takes YEARS of intense dedicated study to grasp Afrikan Traditions. I've been studying a discipline for 40 years and there's a whole world that opens up endlessly as you complete different levels of study. Truly rich.

Thierno why would you focus on Fulah though.