{"id":42431,"date":"2018-04-03T16:36:18","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/sierra-leonean-musician-janka-nabay-dead-at-54\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:37:49","slug":"janka-nabay-dead-at-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/janka-nabay-dead-at-54\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leonean musician Janka Nabay dead at 54"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"pam-featured-content\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12892 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Janka-Nabay.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Janka-Nabay.jpg 644w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Janka-Nabay-465x332.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Janka-Nabay-375x268.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/h3>\n<h3>The cause\u00a0of death of\u00a0&#8220;King of Bubu Music&#8221;\u00a0is currently unknown.<\/h3>\n<p>Siera Leonean musician and &#8220;King of Bubu music&#8221; Janka Nabay has died at age 54. His death was confirmed by his label Luaka Bop Records and the cause of death is currently unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Originally used in witchcraft ceremonies, but later it turned into a popular religious processional style played during Ramadan. In its folk form, the music is played by blowing on bamboo cane flutes and on metal pipes -often repurposed auto parts.\u00a0During the Sierra Leone Civil War, Ahmed Janka Nabay became the first musician to record Bubu music. He modernized the sound by adding electric studio instrumentation.<\/p>\n<p>Nabay&#8217;s music became popular across the war-torn nation in the 1990s, particularly among young rebels trying to overthrow the government, which forced Nabay to flee the country. But bubu music didn&#8217;t get hurted. On the contrary, Janka embraces these new possibilities and forms the\u00a0Janka Nabay and the Bubu\u00a0Gang\u00a0with indie musicians from Brooklyn, propeling bubu music in the futur.<\/p>\n<h4><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4T9wr8PLUE0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" loading=\"lazy\">allow=&#8221;autoplay; encrypted-media&#8221; allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/h4>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Read next:<\/em>\u00a0 <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/baloji-137-avenue-kaniama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rapper Baloji is Back with a Tortured, but Devilishly Creative Album<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cause\u00a0of death of\u00a0&#8220;King of Bubu Music&#8221;\u00a0is currently unknown. Siera Leonean musician and &#8220;King of Bubu music&#8221; Janka Nabay has died at age 54. His death was confirmed by his label Luaka Bop Records and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42431"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42431"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=42431"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}