Richie Lumambo
Country Tanzania Genres blues roots fusion Website www.musicinafrica.net Facebook /RichieLumambo Festival Sauti za Busara 2021 Richie Lumambo is a guitarist, singer, songwriter from Tanzania with soaring vocals and his own unique guitar style. His music is inspired by Tanzanian traditional music styles as well as Western soul grooves.
His band brings together youthful musicians to successfully showcase talents of his new generation. A powerful East African groove drives their songs that always convey messages of strength and hope.
Lumambo studied classical guitar at Dhow Countries Music Academy (DCMA Zanzibar) for three years, where he and fellow students formed the Mapanya Band, who performed to great acclaim at Sauti za Busara 2018 and 2020. In the meantime, during 2019 he released a solo single, entitled Safari, combining voice, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, violin and trumpet in a moving and lush production.
Richie Lumambo performs regularly in Dar es Salaam. Other festival shows include Bagamoyo Festival 2019, 2020 and Marafiki Festival 2020. He also teaches his own brand of music therapy, in firm belief that music has the power to calm and nourish stressed and troubled minds.
Algeria Angola Australia Austria Benin Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Denmark DRC Egypt eSwatini Ethiopia Far East Finland France Gambia Germany Ghana Guinea Guinea Bissau Iraq Japan Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Morocco Mozambique Namibia Netherlands Nigeria Norway Pan Africa Pemba Puerto Rico Reunion Rwanda Senegal Seychelles Somaliland South Africa Sudan Suriname Sweden Switzerland Tanzania Uganda UK USA Various Yemen Zambia Zanzibar Zimbabwe
acoustic acrobats afrobeat band blues bongo flava coastal comedy dance dj electro fusion hiphop jazz kidumbak pop reggae rock roots rumba spiritual spoken word taarab traditional urban zenji flava