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Loba Akou
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- Springhill, LA
- United States
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- Favorite Flatpickers
- Narciso Yepes, Andre Segovia, Paco de Lucia, Earl Klugh,
Al Dimeola, John Mc Laughlin, Sekou Bembeya, Manitas de Platas, Franco etc......................
- Favorite Flatpicking Tunes
- Autumn Leaves, lots of jazz standards, Little wing,Owaley, Aloko Party, Timbuktu, Hear my train a comin', etc............
- Favorite Guitars
- Epiphones, Cordoba,Gibson, Taylors etc.........
- Tell us more about yourself (place a Bio here if you wish)
- Loba's first encounters with music was under the tutelage of Professor Demascolo, with whom he studied classical guitar and Spanish music, that’s were he learned fingerstyle guitar. With the same teacher he discovered the music of Django Rheinhardt and French music.He learned how to play some of Django’s charts. One of the biggest influence Jimi Hendrix, along with rock star guitarists such as Santana, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Johnny Winter occupied most of his time after he left the classical guitar class.
Loba afterwards was introduced to the music of Kenny Burrell( the first jazz guitarist he studied) then came the music of George Benson, Wes Montgomery, John McLaughlin, Al Dimeola, Earl Klugh, Herbie Hancock,Weather Report, Return to Forever, who were some of the most talked about musicians at that time
He also studied African traditional guitar from Cote D’Ivoire including Highlife and Soukous guitar from the Congo.
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- http://www.loba1.com
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