Ernesto Djédjé
Ernesto Djédjé (1948–1983) was an Côte d'Ivoire, Ivorian musician from Daloa. His parents were Wolof people, Wolof and Bété people, Bété. Djédjé began playing music at fifteen when he became a guitarist with Ivoiro Star, a leading dopé band, in 1962. He moved to Paris in 1968 and became a student. He continued to perform and made his first recording with Anoma Brou Felix in 1970 with the help of Manu Dibango. In 1972, he returned to his homeland to lead the San Pedro Orchestra. He later formed a band called Les Ziglibithiens and pioneered a musical style called Ziglibithy based on a kind of Bété roots music combined with Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congolese rhythms. Djedje's Ziglibithy is highly syncopated dance music, in which the sinuous guitar lines are punctuated with fat horns. Djedje recorded his first solo album in 1977, calling it ''Ziboté'' with producer Gbadamassi Raïmi. Another album, ''Le Roi du Ziglibithy'', was released on Badmos Records i ...
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