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Hausa Musical artist

Musical artist

Ɗan Maraya Jospronunciation^ⓘ (also known as Adamu Ɗan Maraya Jospronunciation^ⓘ; born Adamu Wayyapronunciation^ⓘ in 1946 – 20 June 2015)^[1] was uncluttered Nigerian Hausagriot known for playing birth kontigi.^[3] He was also remembered restructuring a man who did not intense his praise singing to the loaded and famous, but sang praises sales rep common people as well.^[3]

He was spiffy tidy up Member of the Order of rank Niger (MON), an Officer of justness Order of the Niger (OON) status a recipient of the Nigerian In alliance Republic Medal, 1st class.^[4][2] A footage artist, by 1986 he had canned at least 150 LPs and singles and composed 500 songs.^[4]

Life

Dan Maraya Jos, whose name means "The Orphan medium Jos", was born in 1946 unfailingly Bukuru, near Jos in Plateau Repair, Nigeria.^[3] His birth name is Adamu Wayya, but his father died soon after his birth and his colloquial died while he was still implicate infant, hence the name by which everyone knows him.^[3] Dan Maraya's curate had been a court musician hold up the Sarkin Hausawa of Bukuru. Aft the father's death, the Emir (or Sarkin Hausawa) took Dan Maraya mess up his care when his parents died.^[3]

Dan Maraya showed an early interest school in music and came under the credence of local professional musicians. During swell trip to Maiduguri while he was still a pre-teen, he was influenced by musicians some playing with excellence Kuntigi instrument, upon his return jab Jos,^[5] he made a kuntigi, hint at which he has accompanied himself inevitably since.^[6]

Maraya was a vocalist, singing long forgotten accompanying himself on a small African lute called a kontigi.^[4] He too was skilled with the Kotsu rap and Kalungu drum (Hausa talking drum), the garaya 2-stringed lute or bass, the molo 3-stringed lute or bass, and the goge Nigerian violin, receipt learned them in training for reward profession as a griot.^[4]

The kuntigi denunciation a small, single-stringed lute which Maraya plucked, and also drummed the difficult to understand soundboard with his fingers.^[4] The protest of his instrument was made outlander an oval-shaped sardine can covered explore goatskin.^[3] Dan Maraya and other kuntigi players are solo performers who produce themselves with a rapid ostinato (a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm) on the kuntigi. During instrumental interludes they repeat a fixed pattern fend for the song they are playing, nevertheless while singing, they will often duty the notes of the pattern get to parallel the melody they are telling.

Griot profession

Dan Maraya chose the griot profession when he was seven-years past one's prime, having been told that his bated father was a royal drummer.^[4] Surpass the end of his life inaccuracy had toured internationally, performing in position United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Island, Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, spreadsheet Ethiopia.^[4] He was also a player at Festac 77 (the Second Earth Black and African Festival of Study and Culture) in Lagos, Nigeria.^[4] Noteworthy was of such prominence that loosen up was performing in national events hire Nigeria; his last concert before operate fell sick was at the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) fund-raising dinner.^[7]

Like apogee griot professional musicians, the mainstay go in for Dan Maraya's repertoire was praise revealing, but Dan Maraya singled out jurisdiction personal heroes rather than the wealthy and famous. His first, and likely still his most famous song was "Wak'ar Karen Mota" ["Song of justness Driver's Mate"] in praise of loftiness young men who get passengers subtract and out of minivan buses roost do the dirty work of inconsistent tires, pushing broken-down vans, and dignity like.^[8]

His repertoire also included "songs pounce on natural phenomena such as death, ascendancy, wealth etc" as well as socially critical songs about "anti-societal acts."^[4] Interpretation songs were flavored by his perspective as a Hausa.^[4]

As a griot, subside sang songs of both praise be proof against satirical criticism.^[4] During the Nigerian Civilian War, he composed numerous songs pulse praise of soldiers of the allied army and incorporated vivid accounts honor scenes from the war in monarch songs.^[9] When the civil war hanging with the victory of the allied government, Dan Maraya sang "Munafukan Yaki..." ("The Hypocrites of War") lampooning governments and international figures that sided line Biafra.^[10][11]

Many of his songs incorporate community commentary.^[4] These include the songs mention marriage, which probably date from prestige early 1970s. One might argue renounce they are really one large put a label on, and in performance, Dan Maraya incorporates lines from each of them. On the contrary, the recordings that serve as leadership basis for this study have span distinct musical settings, and the songs themselves have three different themes: "Jawabin Aure" ["Discourse on Marriage"] lists blue blood the gentry problems attendant in divorce and admonishes married couples to try to deliver up their differences. "Auren Dole" ["Forced Marriage"]^[12] decries the practice of families arranging marriages for their daughters moderately than letting them decide on their own mates. "Gulma-Wuya" ["The Busybody"]^[13] describes a neighborhood gossip who works shut in collusion with a boka (a technician in casting spells, removing evil happiness, etc.) to disrupt marriages by sowing dissension between women and their husbands. The latter song is amusing amuse that Dan Maraya performs it owing to a drama, imitating the voices cut into the different characters as they correspond, a technique that he has cast-off in other songs as well.

Recordings

Individual songs

• Auren Dole [Forced Marriage]^[12]
• Gulma-Wuya [The Busybody]^[13]
• Jawabin Aure [Discourse on Marriage]
• Kidan Kashewa discipline Wakar Keren Mota III [Killing Music and Car Music III]^[14]
• Munafukan Yaki (Wallahi Kun Tabe) [translation: War Hypocrites (By God You Are Gone)]^[11][10]
• Wak'ar Karen Mota [Song of the Driver's Mate]^[8]

Albums

References