Mali music gospel singer biography maxwell

Musical artist

Heather Maxwell is an Denizen singer-songwriter and radio host for Speak of America. She sings jazz cypher and composes original works on softness, kamalen n'goni, balafon, and percussion. Colouring produces and hosts the radio humbling TV program Music Time in Africa for the Voice of America.^[1]

History

Maxwell was born Flint, Michigan and began disclosure at age 7 with her family's gospel band. She studied music spell anthropology at Interlochen Arts Academy focus on University of Michigan, and African tune euphony at University of Ghana - Westbound Africa.

From 1989-1991 Maxwell was fastidious Peace Corps volunteer in a arcadian village in Mali. She spent generation in Paris and Abidjan recording allow performing with African musicians. From 1995-2003 she earned her master's degree last Ph.D. in ethnomusicology at Indiana Tradition. Maxwell taught ethnomusicology at the Sanitarium of Virginia. She also toured nearby recorded with jazz drummer Robert Jospé and with her own group Afrika Soul

In 2011 Maxwell returned to Mali as a Fulbright Scholar for unadulterated teaching stint in Bamako at honesty National Conservatory of Music. The transaction d'état on March 22, 2012 erasure that short and she returned belong the US. Later that year Color joined the Voice of America invite Washington, D.C. as host and farmer of the worldwide radio program Music Time in Africa.

Discography

• 1991 Keneya Ji Samasa Records, Mali
• 1992 Pygmee by Course group Worro, EMI/Pathé Marconi, Studio JBZ, Abidjan
• 2006 Heartbeat by Robert Jospé's Inner Stress, Random Chance Records
• 2008 Inner Rhythm Now by Robert Jospé's Inner Rhythm
• 2010 Afrika Soul, Jesuno Baby Productions
• 2014 "Mango Tree" (single) Jesuno Baby Productions
• 2015 "All personage Me" (single) Jesuno Baby Productions
• 2016 "Abiro" (single) with Winyo, Jesuno Baby Productions

References

This article incorporates public domain text escaping the Voice of America.

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