【Culture．文化】DAMBA (Unity Drum, in Cape Coast, Ghana)
DAMBA (Unity Drum, in Cape Coast, Ghana)
【About US．關於我們】PROFILE OF THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND FOUNDER OF UNITY DRUM THEATER.
My name is EMMANUEL CHARLES RICHARDSON, The founder and director of UNITYDRUM THEATER. African music and dance has been my life since I was born to the earth of Ghana in Africa. At the age of five my father started teaching me drumming but different from traditional drumming. My father was a great musician on the Ghana Cape Coast then. When I was nine years of age my dad and my elder brother took me to a group called the Twerampong Traditional Drumming and Dancing Group at the Cape Coast Castle. They knew where my source of motivation in life came from. I never knew I could dance but I always see the music in me as my passion. I humbly submitted to my leaders in the group and learnt drumming and dancing very well and everything else they were willing to teach me. When I was in junior high school my dad died and it was like I have lost all my life. But I never give up on what I do. I continued but stopped my formal group and became my own master by teaching foreign and local p
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