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| Doudou Ndiaye Rose: Famous Senegalese drummer dies | Doudou Ndiaye Rose: Famous Senegalese drummer dies |
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| Renowned Senegalese drummer Doudou Ndiaye Rose has died aged 85, his family has announced. | Renowned Senegalese drummer Doudou Ndiaye Rose has died aged 85, his family has announced. |
| Famous for playing the tam-tam drum, he toured the world and played with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and the Rolling Stones. | Famous for playing the tam-tam drum, he toured the world and played with jazz legends such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and the Rolling Stones. |
| He led an orchestra of more than 30 drummers, many of them his children and grandchildren. | |
| The UN cultural agency declared him a "living human treasure" in 2006 for keeping alive traditional rhythms. | |
| Rose continued to play up until his death and a few years ago explained how happy he was to have spawned a dynasty of percussionists. | |
| "I thank the good lord. My children have learned the language of percussion well," he told the AFP news agency in 2010. | |
| "I can even no longer play and just listen to them." | |
| 'Drumming symphonies' | |
| Senegalese rapper Didier Awadi, 36, said Rose was at ease playing with both modern acts and traditional groups. | |
| He was a genius, who was able to turn the sound of many drums into a symphony, he told the BBC's Newsday programme. | |
| "He can organise more than 100 drums and make the sound smooth." | |
| The rapper said every piece that Rose played had a message: "He knew the language of the drum, because the drum was our first cell phone to communicate." | |
| According to AFP, Rose was born into a griot family of musicians and story-tellers, but his accountant father did not want him to continue in the tradition. | |
| When the young man defied him, they went for seven years without shaking hands, it reports. | |
| Awadi said it was difficult to choose one track to sum up his mentor: "It is like Mozart or a great master, every piece is a 'chef d'oeuvre' (masterpiece)." |