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Artist
Gabin Dabiré
12+ albums
Italyborn in Bobo-Dioulassoafricanworldburkina faso
about
Gabin was born in Bobo-Dioulasso, from a family that belonged to Dagari s ethnic group, in Burkina Faso, a very little state of western Africa that once was called Alto Volta, until when a big and important revolution changed its name. He first went in Denmark then he came to Italy in the 70s, when Gabin started to draw his particular idea of music. That was the reason that pulled him to continue his travel abroad, in the East world, where he learned, improved and searched. When he came back to Italy he moved to Milan and went deeper in studying African and Asiatic percussion, chordophones, singing and composition. At the same time he spreads the art of his country for what concerned music, cinema, dance and theatre. In the 1984 he established the Centre of African culture, thanks to his girlfriend s help, the artist Elena Albini Trissino. In the 1984 he moved in the Chianti, a rural zone in Tuscany that became the lab where the musician developed his research and his musical poetry. Here Gabin composed his first experimental research with African tradition; all of the images, the sounds and the colours of his land and the countries of his journey are alive in this music, besides the poetry and the elegance of the compositions. Great artists as Maurizio Deho, Giulio Capiozzo, Tullio De Piscopo, Mario Arcari, and Walter Maioli has been fascinated by those particular kind of music so much to collaborate with the artist in many occasions. In the 1994 Gabin produced his first
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