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![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Rama-Ngoni_\u00a9_Alimatou-Diakite-400x400.jpg\" "\\"Rama")
Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/12562381_10203819956418850_1122179197webkl_o-138x138.jpg\")
LANAYA<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LANAYA-Mama-Sanou_chante_byRacheleweb-167x167.jpg\")
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Aziz Sinka<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lanaya_11-400x400.jpg\")
LANAYA in Usbekistan<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/aziz_ngonwebi-250x250.jpg\")
Aziz Sinka<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lanaya_10-400x400.jpg\")
LANAYA, Creole Award<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/lanaya_09-400x400.jpg\")
LANAYA<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/LANAYA_1-award_Uzbekistanweb-180x180.jpg\")
1 Price \"Sharq Taranolari\"<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/LANAYA_creole-backstage_kl-382x383.jpg\")
LANAYA<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/KOSMOSTAGE-website-167x167.jpg\")
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<\/a>Aziz Sinka\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IMG_1169web-188x188.jpg\")
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Souleymane Tour\u00e9
Special Guest<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/c-GustavRauschweb-41-169x169.jpg\")
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Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rama-Ngoni-2_c_Latif-Photo-Shop-400x400.jpg\" "\\"Rama")
Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rama-Ngoni-1_c_Latif-Photo-Shop-400x400.jpg\" "\\"Rama")
Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rama-Ngoni-400x400.jpg\" "\\"Rama")
Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Rama-Ngoni_slides-256x256.png\" "\\"Rama")
Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/channels4_profile-176x175.jpg\" "\\"channels4_profile\\"")
Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Z63_0565_proc-367x366.jpg\" "\\"Z63_0565_proc\\"")
Massa Dembele<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/massamoussa-1-366x367.jpg\" "\\"massa+moussa-1\\"")
Massa Dembele<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/DS74459_proc-366x367.jpg\" "\\"_DS74459_proc\\"")
Massa Dembele<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/BARRO_LACHT-400x400.jpg\" "\\"BARRO_LACHT\\"")
Adama Dembele<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Z63_0603_proc-400x400.jpg\" "\\"Z63_0603_proc\\"")
Massa Dembele + Rama Ngoni<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LANAYA-4x-400x400.jpg\" "\\"LANAYA")
Quartett<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ahoi-kultur.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/LANAYA_c_Aziz-Sinka-400x400.jpg\" "\\"LANAYA_(c)_Aziz")
Quintett<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n<\/div>
\nManding & Contemporary Music & Dance from Burkina Faso
\n<\/strong>
\nwww.lanaya-denou.de <\/a>
\n<\/strong>music @Spotify<\/a>
\nyoutube-playlist<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nLine-up:<\/span><\/strong>
\nRama N’goni <\/strong>aka Alimatou Diakit\u00e9 <\/strong>– Vocal, N’goni, Dance
\nAziz Sinka <\/strong>\u2013 Doun Doun, Calabasse, Vocal, <\/strong>Bandleader
\n<\/strong>Massa Demb\u00e9le<\/strong>\u2013 Balafon, Djemb\u00e9, Vocal
\nMoussa Coulibaly <\/strong>– Balafon, Djemb\u00e9, Vocal
\nAdama Dembele <\/strong>\u2013 Djembe, Vocal
\nStand-by:<\/em>
\nS\u00e9kou Bamogo\u00a0 \u2013 Dance
\nLouis Sanou<\/strong>\u2013 Balafon, Djemb\u00e9, Ngoni, Vocal
\nDjelifily Sako <\/strong>– Kora
\nDaniel Lorenz <\/strong> \u2013 Violine
\nMoumouni Diatta<\/strong> \u2013 Djembe, Ngoni
\nSouleymane Diabat\u00e9 <\/strong>– Balafon, Djembe, Vocal<\/p>\nWorkshops:<\/em>
\nPercussion, Balafon, N\u2019goni <\/strong><\/strong>(Westafrican Harpe), Dance
\n<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n1st Price<\/strong> at Sharq Taronalari 2013, Int. Competition, supported by UNESCO
\n& “Creole Award” Berlin & Brandenburg 2013<\/h4>\nDebutalbum<\/strong> “BOBO-DIOULASSO” by AHOI-tunes<\/a><\/p>\n
The group LANAYA (Trust) has earned the reputation of being something spezial in the Berlin music scene. All musicians are from Burkina Faso, West Africa and use the rich cultural and musical heritage from the people of the Manding. LANAYA have a profound cultural and musical background and have managed to create a very own sound which is going far beyond the songs usually heard on African drum concerts.
\nPerformed are the world-famous, powerful and furious rhythms, songs and dances of the Manding Tribes: Bobo, Bissa <\/strong>and Siamou<\/strong> on the borders Mali, Ghana <\/strong>and Ivory Coast<\/strong>. Even the music-instruments are from these different regions and usually dont play together in one group!
\nThe entire repertoire was arranged by own means and modern style elements. They manage to interpret partly ancient, soft or powerful, sad or happy songs with harmonic grooving melodies and rhythmic African improvisations over and over again. LANAYA regularly invites musicians and dancers as guests from Burkina Faso and are able to convince and delight the audience with their original way and complicity.
\nBandleader Aziz Sinka produce the yearly festival WOK<\/a>A<\/a><\/strong> KUMA<\/strong><\/a> in Berlin & FESTICO<\/strong><\/a> in Bobo-Dioulasso.<\/p>\nThe musicians:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
Abdoul Aziz Sinka <\/strong>– Band Leader
\nwas born in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso. Very early he gets in touch with music through a Griot family who teaches him singing. In several West African countries he met other traditions and intensifies his music knowledge in Djembe, Talking Drum, Calabash and N\u2019goni. Since 2002 Aziz is living in Germany, where he founds LANAYA with his brother Ibrahim in order to put across his home culture. To the rich Manding\u2019s culture the band adds modern elements of style. With \u201cTrio Djekafo\u201d he was on tour in Germany and Switzerland in 2008.
\nIn 2009 Aziz initiates an ambitious project: BEN KADY (Peace is good). The ensemble of musicians from about 15 countries presents itself in an exceptionally social, cultural and musical variety. Openness, tolerance, braveness and talent are the keys of this successful project which Aziz wants to establish in Berlin every year with the WOKA KUMA Festival, Berlin. In 2005 he plays as the 1st African artist in Uzbekistan at the UNESCO Festival “Sharq Taronalari”.
\nWith \u201cInterkunst\u201d project against violence & racism he was on tour in Germany.
\nSince 2006 Aziz regularly appears in the House scene of Lithuania with DJ Avieras. In 2008 he gave music workshops at the Oneaka Dance Company in Charlotte, North Carolina\/USA. Aziz performed solo and with musicians at Africa Film festival \u201cAfriKamera\u201d, World Championships in Athletics 2009 (IAAF) and \u201cFanmeile\u201d for FIFA World Cup in 2006.
\nIn 2009 ARTE-TV showed Abdoul Aziz Sinka as one of the main protagonists in \u201c24 hours Berlin\u201d.
\nHe produce the festivals: WOKA KUMA in Berlin, Germany
\n& FESTICO in Bobo-Dioulasso, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.<\/p>\nRama Ngoni<\/strong><\/a> aka Alimatou Diakit\u00e9<\/strong>
\nis one of the most popular singers in Burkina Faso and now lives in Germany.
\nThe great vocal artist plays the traditional instrument N’goni (West African harp), traditionally played only by hunters and dozos \u2013
\nRama Ngoni is one of the few women who plays the Ngoni !<\/strong>
\nSince childhood, she immersed herself in music through her father, the renowned musician Limani Fati\u00e9 Traor\u00e9. Her career began at the age of 7, when she accompanied her father on stage, and she has been traveling to festivals in Europe since the age of 10.
\nShe has released two albums and collaborated with numerous Burkinabe artists.
\nHer style combines traditional and modern music, creating a musical experience.
\nHer voice seduces her listeners into a magical state of relaxation, where there is also room for laughter and tears. Her songs, interwoven with fairy tales, tell of simple life, great wisdom, and the hidden desires of people.
\nShe comes from a traditional Griot family in the cultural capital of Bobo-Dioulasso and draws her inspiration from these roots. Griots are tasked with preserving and passing on history, with bringing peace to people so they can make decisions with their hearts. Her 1st album “Mougnou” and 2nd “Dombo K\u00e9l\u00e9” in 2025.<\/p>\nMassa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/strong> <\/a>
\nThe multi-instrumentalist and griot is master of West African musical traditions and a creator of original works within the realm of Afro-fusion. He plays the djembe, ngoni and balafon, and is active as a composer and arranger within the West African-influenced music scene. With his extensive experience on stage and in live performance, he plays a vital role in fostering the cohesion of the group. Thanks to his extraordinary versatility and deep connection to the roots of the West African Manding tradition, he brings a distinctive sound to the stage – one that spans various genres and musical ensembles.
\nOver the course of his solo career, he has released two albums.
\nFollowing many years as a solo artist and member of various bands across Europe and West Africa, 2026 focused his efforts on his band project, “Sew\u00e8s\u00e9.” This includes the release of his 3rd album, “Falat\u00f4” which he is currently presenting on tour.<\/p>\nMoussa Coulibaly<\/a><\/strong>
\ncomes from a traditional Griot family, began his musical training at the age of six. and living in Berlin since 2012. His compositions are strongly influenced by his cultural background in the Rock Village of Kolonzo, the “Village Coulibaly”, in western Burkina Faso right on the border with Mali, where Moussa was born and grew up. After various tours through Europe, he has been living and working in Berlin since 2012. He released 1st solo CD “NAKA” several works and plays masterfully in front of the balafon, djemb\u00e9 and n’goni in his groups, gives individual lessons at “Balafon School Berlin”, provides accompaniment for salsa, reggae, and jazz music.<\/p>\nAdama Demb\u00e9l\u00e9<\/a> <\/strong>also Djah Barro<\/strong>
\nA reggae musician and instrumentalist specializing in traditional West African music, he hails from Burkina Faso. Born in Bobo-Dioulasso into a *griot* family, he began learning percussion, singing, and how to play the *ngoni* within his family circle at the age of six.
\nBy the age of 20, he was performing as a musician for dance productions, weddings, and family celebrations; he also began writing his own lyrics and recording music as a reggae artist.
\nIn 2003, he traveled to Italy with his group, “Bensoba.” Between 2006 and 2007, he participated in the *Sommet de la Francophonie* in Burkina Faso as one of 400 percussionists under the direction of *djemb\u00e9* master Adama Dram\u00e9. In 2009, he made his second trip to Europe, working as a music instructor in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy\u2014an initiative organized by the Belgian association “Natan.” This was followed by an extended stay in Europe, during which he took on further engagements as both a musician and a music teacher. In 2021, he released his debut album, “Djah Barro.”
\nHe has been living and working in Berlin, Germany, since 2014.<\/p>\n