Lionel Loueke is an internationally acclaimed West African jazz singer and
guitarist who played drums as a child growing up in Benin but turned to the
guitar as a teenager. He studied at the National Higher Institute of Arts and
Cultural Action in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and the American School of Modern Music
in Paris, France before going to America in 1999 to study at Boston's Berklee
College of Music and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz programme at the
University of Southern California.
He has recorded with many great jazz artists such as Terence Blanchard, Herbie
Han...