Amadou Lamine Touré

Amadou Lamine Touré is Director of Rambax, MIT’s Senegalese Drum Ensemble. He comes from a long line of griots, a caste of musicians and oral historians among the Wolof people. One of Senegal’s leading percussionists, Touré toured extensively with Nder et le Setsima Group, performing at Bercy (Paris), the Barbican Center (London), the Festival International de Jazz (Montréal) and Central Park Summerstage (New York). Touré is also the founder and leader of Group Saloum, a Boston-based Afropop band that fuses Senegalese mbalax with elements of jazz, funk, reggae and Afrobeat.