Amadou Lamine Touré

Amadou Lamine Touré is the Director of Rambax, MIT’s Senegalese Drum Ensemble. He also organizes cultural immersion programs for MIT students in Senegal. He is the founder of Group Saloum, which fuses Senegalese mbalax with elements of jazz, funk, reggae, and Afrobeat.

Touré tours extensively within Senegal and throughout Europe and North America, with performances at Bercy (Paris), the Festival International de Jazz (Montréal) and Central Park Summerstage (New York). Always a highlight of Setsima Group, Touré showcases his musical talent and versatility on a wide range of percussion instruments, from sabar and djembé to tama (talking drum), as well as in taasu (rhythmic poetry, similar to rap).