Hassan Hakmoun
Morocco
Born: 01 January 1963
Genres: International, Jazz
Styles: World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Latin Jazz/World Fusion, Worldbeat
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One of contemporary Moroccan music's most notable figures, New York-based Hassan Hakmoun was born in Marrakesh in 1963. At age seven he began to study tagnawit, the traditional arts, folklore, and rituals of the Gnawa tribes, former slaves originating from the Sudan whose arrival in Morocco was marked by their conversion to Islam. The Gnawa people act as intermediaries in the spirit world and also as entertainers; Hakmoun initially studied their dances and songs, later graduating to drumming, litanies, and chants. He left school at the age of 1...
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