Tasana Camara’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Guinean musician
Is Musician
From Guinea
Type Music
Gender male
Birth

24 January 1958

Age 62 years
Star sign Aquarius
Instruments:
Kora

Tasana Camara (born January 24, 1958) is a balafon, djembe, and kora player hailing from Conakry, Guinea in West Africa.

Career

He has performed with the Ballet Senegal, Ballet la Maise, Ballet Djouliba, and the National Ballet of Guinea. He helped found “Group Laiengee” a performing troupe in Guinea composed of children with significant disabilities. In 2008 Tasana and Group Laiengee partnered with Dr. Donald DeVito at The Sidney Lanier Center, a public school in Gainesville, Florida for American students with disabilities. This project was included in the United Nations Compendium on “Music as a Natural Resource” to find ways to make music programs a source of economic opportunity for developing communities around the world. Camara performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City on May 21, 2010 with the Sidney Lanier School Music Ensemble (musicians from both the American School and Group Laiengee). The performance in New York was funded by a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts.

Recognition

He was nominated for and won the Jubilation Foundation’s “Community Music Award.”

Personal life

He currently resides in Western Pennsylvania, teaches music lessons, and performs at local venues as well as around the rest of the United States.

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