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It is an opening that Mr. Mamady Keita oneself established Tam Tam Mandingue in Belgian Brussels as a school learning traditional music of West Africa in 1991 and opens a place of the activity now in the various countries in the world around Europe. In Asia, a principal school becomes the first establishment.
The Djembe is racial tradition percussion instruments of West Africa including the Republic of Guinea such as a Malinke or Bambara. I can recite the racial history, and it is said to be able to talk through the Djembe with natural apparitions of a living person not to mention a person the master of Djembe. I call a master of such Djembe "Djembe Fola", and it is worshiped now by people. Mom D Keita is a person having a title of master "Djembe fola" of the Djembe.

I repeated a performance in world 60 countries since I was born in the Republic of Guinea for 1950 years and I made it 14 years old and played an active part as a solo player of the national Joriba orchestra. In addition, for the traditional spread, I establish Jean Beth cool TamTam Mandingue in the countries such as Europe or U.S.A. And the Japanese school was established this time.


A boyfriend "oneself is from the small village". It wants to play the concert in Japan with the children of the small village by all means. I said ". And, in August, 1994, interchange with the children of Mishima-mura began. Words of him to want therefore to think a large chop to be it in one's hometown who began with the small village as for all culture afterwards not to mention the country with the children of Mishima of the Republic of Guinea visit of concert appearance in the Europe, children was a chance.
Keita receives evaluation widely on the mom day when I continue being active in various countries in the world and is called "King of Mandinge" now. Mandingue is the name of the kingdom which criticized DJembe in old days.