Mola Sylla
Mola Sylla (* 1956 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese musician .
In 1987 Sylla moved to Europe, where he lives in Amsterdam . He is known as a singer, but also plays African instruments such as the lamellophone mbira , kongoma (with 2 to 3 metal tongues, in Liberia ) and kalimba (8 to 25 metal tongues, common in southern Africa) as well as the pike lute xalam .
Sylla has worked with a variety of musicians, from the jazz of Sean Bergin and the nu jazz of Saskia Laroo to the improvising music of Tristan Honsinger and cross-cultural projects with which he regularly performed at the Moers Festival . He is a founding member of the groups Senemali (where Senegalese musicians work with those from Mali ) and VeDaKi (initially: Vershki da Koreshki , where Russian, Senegalese and Indian musicians work together).
Together with Ernst Reijseger , he created the music for Werner Herzog's films The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) and Ein nursorglicher Sohn (2009).
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| SURNAME | Sylla, Mola |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senegalese musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dakar |