Timbuktu: The Scandinavian Instrumentalist Jason Michael Robinson Diakité

Timbuktu: The Musician

Jason Michael Robinson Diakité's phase refer is Timbuktu, afterward the W African ancient city. He is a prolific immature Scandinavian rapper too reggae artist. Born inward 1975 inward Lund, Sweden of African-American too Swedish parents, Timbuktu started making music inward the early on 1990s. Influenced yesteryear his nascency province of Sweden, too every minute fourth dimension spent inward New York, too inward Chile, he has released viii culturally rich albums. He has won Grammy Awards inward Sweden too Gold Record Awards inward both Kingdom of Norway too Sweden.

"His music borrows from African rhythms, blues, folk too Jamaican sounds piece it nonetheless retains an liberate energy too a spontaneity quite odd on the international hip-hop scene," said Arnaud Danielou, writing for the Groovalizacion publication (09/27/09).

This is a peachy vocal (below)...I think. Most of his music is inward Scanian Swedish, amongst around inward English. An African Swedish rapper or the deconstruction of Babel. In either case, all is well. His videos are highly creative productions. Black history heroes -- whether inward scholarship, business, politics, the sciences, or the arts -- ever changing the game on a positive vibration.