Takeifa biography for kids

TAKEIFA - Biography:

If you walk through the streets of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, and ask one of the locals where the Keita siblings live, you will soon get an answer, because the band TAKEIFA around its founder and lead vocalist Jac Keita have long been a musical institution In Senegal, their home country.

But let us go one step back – to the year 1992:

In the town of Kaolack in Senegal the 11-year-old Jac Keita is given a guitar by his father.

It has no strings but using brake cables that he finds on old bicycles, the boy finally succeeds in luring the first tones out of his new love. Inspired by the old songs his mother used to sing to him when he was a child, Jac begins with his music.

As a teenager, he makes some money as a street musician, plays in various bands and as from the start he likes to make music his own way, he emancipates himself step by step from MBALAX, the musical genre prevailing in West Africa.

10 years later the charismatic frontman wi