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| Lionel and Celine..set to thrill Lagosians |
In continuation of the world tour of
the new album Obsession by top jazz music singer, composer and Professor Celine Rudolph and renowned Beninoise guitarist Lionel Loueke, the duo storms Lagos in
a show proudly hosted and supported by the Goethe Institute Lagos.
Already, the coming show is talk of the Lagos arts community as music lovers plan to make it memorable.
Already, the coming show is talk of the Lagos arts community as music lovers plan to make it memorable.
This is not the first time the Jazz
music professor Rudolph will have things to do with Goethe Institut.
Many years ago she was at Goethe
Institut Lisbon as "Goethe artist in
residence" in the Lisbon-based Portuguese-speaking African music scene.
She
started a duet with Benenoise jazz guitarists Lionel Loueke in 2003 and released the
Obsession album which is currently enjoying world acclaim for its unique blend of voices, styles and acoustic guitars since its release
October 2017
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| Professor of Jazz music Celine Rudolph |
Rudolph was born in Berlin in
1969 as the daughter of a French mother and a German father. She
first studied rhetoric and
philosophy, then jazz singing and composition studies at the Hochschule der
Künste Berlin from 1991 to 1997 with David
Friedman, Jerry Granelli , Kirk Nurock and Catherine Gayer (classical
singing).
In 1990 she founded together
with pianist Volker Kottenhahn,
bassist Dirk Strakhof and drummer Johannes
Bockholt her first band Out of Print , with which she recorded two albums and toured the Balkans and
Africa. As a result, she worked with musicians such as Bob Moses , Anthony Cox , Marc Ducret and Gary Peacock . In 1995
she studied with the African percussionist Famoudou Konaté .
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| Lionel Loueke with his guitar |
Lionel Loueke (born 27 April 1973) is a guitarist and
vocalist from Republic of Benin. He moved to Ivory Coast in 1990 to study at
the National Institute of Art He attended the American School of
Modern Music in Paris, France from
1994–1998. In 1999, Loueke was awarded a scholarship to Berklee College of
Music, where he earned a degree in Jazz Performance in 2000.
Lionel Loueke grew up in what he has described as a family of
poor intellectuals in the West African country of Benin. He began playing percussion instruments around the age of 9 but was
influenced by an older brother who played guitar, which he began playing
himself in his late teens. It took Loueke a year to earn the $50 he needed to
buy his first guitar. However, he could not afford to replace the strings, which had to be ordered from Nigeria. Instead, he soaked his strings in
vinegar to keep them clean. When the strings broke, he had to replace them with
bicycle brake cables which were hard on his
fingers.
He later studied jazz music in Paris and won scholarship to
Berklee College of Music Boston Massachussets and was auditioned for the
Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz and got selected by great panel including
Herbie Hancock.The Obsession tour of West African country started in Dakar (Senegal), goes from Abidjan (Ivory Coast), Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso), Lomé (Togo) to Lagos (Nigeria) and Accra (Ghana) and ends with a home game in Cotonou (Benin).
By Fred Iwenjora
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