binhan
the hope of a people in music
Mama Djombo is the powerful female ancestral spirit who turned to ask protect the fighters of the liberation movement, during the struggle for the independence from Portugal. His name, however, is also closely linked to one of the most famous and successful chapters of modern musical history of Guinea Bissau. The period is more or less the same, between the end of 60 and the first 70 years, when some young boy scouts (among them drummer Zé Manel, guitarist Miguelinho N’Simba, Armando Vaz Pereira and Djon Motta) give life to the Super Mama Djombo, a band destined to make their mark.
In 2009, with the tour “Ar Puro” the Super Mama Djombo come to bring the rhythms of their gumbe (a musical style all Guineans) also in Iceland and Hong Kong. Each other in those years there is also a new singer: Binhan, aka Binhanquinhe Quimor. Born in 1977, grew up in Catio, a southern town, today, as a soloist, he is the most listened singer of the moment. There isn’t radio in Guinea Bissau does not send several times a day her hit, as Mariana or Tudo na passa. The latter tells precisely the obstacles that has stood and faced the people Guineans in these decades of political and economic instability.
Through the melodies of Binhan, sings an entire people: “I think that the duty of a musician is to tell what people live, dream, expect from the future“.
