Baba Kone
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BABA KONE CV
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8 DEC 1975 Born in Ouagadougo capital of Burkina Faso
Baba is coming from a griot family which means he is born in to music.
His father was a very good and famous djembe player and Baba startet to have
his first jobs with his father already when he was 7 years old.
CIVIL Married to Rikke Sandberg , Danish, 3 boys from a marriage in Burkina , Solo 28,
Faycal 22, Razack 17
LANGUAGE Fluent English, French, some Danish, German
COUNTRY LIVE IN GERMANY, FLENSBURG, EU RESIDENCY SINCE 2022
1988 Baba joined the Burkina Ballet National ( Dance and Music troup ) and travelled
with the group to France Baba was the first child To be selected to perform with
the group and support his father as a support player until 1992 where his father
left the group.
1992 - 1995 Baba carried on as a lead drummer in Burkina Ballet National where they also performed
at the French opera house in BF
1995 Baba created his own group Yerelon in Burkina Faso , that is still touring op to today 2025
1996 won the competition of the festival SNC with Yerelon and got for real opertunity to travel
with his music Travelled every where Baba go hired to t a lot of job every where with
different bands, musician.etc.
1999 – 2005 MOVED TO UK Baba got a contract to work with a group called a ADJIDO in UK as a lead
drummer with there dance group and drumming , They toured around in Europe .
2005-2007 Baba Startet Drum Café with Brett Schelinger , that today still are in 28 countries in the
World doing teambulding for 50-5000 people with companies and at speciel occasion
like at the wembly station for 5000 people. Also performing for the Queen Elisabeth II ,
Mandela, etc At the time of being in UK Baba also did jobs with Elton John, Peter Gabriel,
Stewie Wonder, for special parts of Africanmusic
2005- 2008 BesideS Drum Café Baba started his group Jelly Masa with 9 nationalty , and performed
with his show at the Royal Theatre , with full house. Glasgow Festival,
Edinborough Festival for 1 moonth performance with full house every night.
Baba also the same time had his drumming classes based in London 2 times a week.
2009 - 2013 Started working with African Footprint in Denmark and toured with them
Touring with Mossa Jallo to a lot of Danish Schools
2014 Teaching at Performance House School in Silkeborg in African culture and Music
Big Show in Nortcraft Theatre Aalborg with kids
Guest Teacher at Royal Music Academy in Aarhus
2015 - 2020 Touring with his Group Yerelon in Burkina Faso , coming to
Utumanduni Festival in Denmark, Building instruments , selling instruments
2020 - 2022 Meet his Danish Wife Rikke and got married , end 2022 moved to Germany
2020-2022 Corona was as every body know difficult time, so different smaller job with different
dancers, artists , building instruments.
2022-2024 Starting his own group Baba Kone World Music , in Germany with among his 3 talented
boys., that also live in Germany
Drumcafe Europe doing Teambuilding Shows around Osterich , Norway, Germany,
Nikolaj Rosengreen Baba Kone Duo Spanish Guitar player with different shows
Eliza Boye Mouritzen Danish Artist, dancer , african dancer, violinist, singer.
Baba Kone Interactive drum shows for birthdays, weddings
2025 Touring the world with our music, dance and culture show Baba Kone World Music ,
African Feeling,

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