Gumbe
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Gumbe, also goombay or gumbay, is a West African style of music found in countries such as Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau. Sierra Leonean gumbe music is indigenous to the Sierra Leone Creole people and was derived from the Jamaican Maroon ancestors of the Creole people. Creole musicians such as Ebenezer Calendar and Dr Oloh popularized gumbe music in Sierra Leone and in other West African locales.
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Gumbe | |
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Stylistic origins | Zouk, Bissau Guinean music |
Cultural origins | Late 1980s, Guinea-Bissau |
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