A griot (/ˈɡriːoʊ/; French: [ɡʁi.o]; Manding: jali or jeli (in N'Ko: ߖߋߟߌ, djeli or djéli in French spelling); Serer: kevel or kewel / okawul; Wolof:...

Griot (French: griot, Haitian Creole: griyo) is a dish in Haitian cuisine. It consists of pork shoulder marinated in citrus, which is braised and then...

Griots are West African poets, who carry stories in the oral tradition accompanied by music. Griot may also refer to: Ablaye Cissoko (b. 1970), known as...

Innercity Griots is the second studio album by American hip hop group Freestyle Fellowship. It was released on April 28, 1993 on 4th & B'way Records and...

Urban Griot is an album by Billy Taylor, featuring tracks recorded in 2000 and released by Soundpost Records. The album was recorded at Manhattan Center...

The Griot is a 2021 Nigerian drama film directed by Adeoluwa Owu and produced by Goodness Emmanuel. The film stars Lateef Adedimeji, Funso Adeolu, Goodness...

Griot, also known as Brewz Bana, is a rapper from Basel, Switzerland. Formerly known as Mory, he released several records and mix-tapes, until he was...

five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player to come from a griot family. She is the cousin...

hereditary class of West African musicians, griots, play tanged lutes, and no other form of stringed instrument; non-griot performers in West Africa play a mixture...

Traversées (2019).[citation needed] A 2011 feature-length documentary, Griot, directed by Volker Goetze, follows Cissoko, who is determined to preserve...

Griot Galaxy was an avant-garde jazz band led by Detroit saxophonist and poet Faruq Z. Bey. The band was founded in 1972 with drummer Tariq Samad, bassist...

Keïta! l'Héritage du griot (English title: Keita! Voice of the Griot) is a 1995 Burkinabé film directed by Dani Kouyaté and starring Sotigui Kouyaté....

descendant of a long line of West African poets (griots). His uncle, Kélé Monson Diabaté, was considered a master griot, and Massa Makan Diabaté once said that...

were traditionally drawn from the griots (géwél), or of the blacksmith caste (tëgg), who were masters of drumming. Griots taught history, ethics and religion...

organization changed its name to The Griot Museum of Black History (“The Griot”) in 2009. In some west African countries, the griot, is a historian, storyteller...

Griot Libertè is an album by bassist Buster Williams recorded in 2004 and released on the HighNote label. The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow said "There...

From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots is the second album by dälek, released in 2002. The instrumentation of the album includes vocals and turntables as...

resonator. A hereditary class of West African musicians, griots, play only tanged lutes; but non-griot performers in West Africa play a mixture of both spike...

forms of griots. Prior to the wide spread of hip hop in Senegal, traditional music was transcended through pre-ordained griots. The term griot, also known...

cannot become a Griot; one must be born into a family of griots to hold that position. Sometimes, a key aspect to signify who is a griot can be found in...

man he found in the Gambia named Kebba Kanga Fofana, who claimed to be a griot with knowledge about the Kinte clan. He described them as a family in which...

born Adamu Wayyapronunciation in 1946 – 20 June 2015) was a Nigerian Hausa griot known for playing the kontigi. He was also remembered as a man who did not...

It is useful for cutting through the greasiness of fried foods such as griot (fried pork), tassot (fried beef), or bannann peze (fried plantains) and...

tradition, going back to the 13th century and narrated by generations of griot poets or jeliw (djeli). There is no single or authoritative version. Material...

trained under the tutelage of a griot spirit who had taken the form of her mother, Ramonda. As they trained the griot spirit shared the memories of not...

generations by the tribe's griots through music and poetry. In traditional Moorish society, each tribe maintained its griots on a gabdh, a kind of lifelong...

the next. Their music and literary traditions are preserved by a caste of griots, known locally as jelis, as well as guilds and brotherhoods like the donso...

Yarbrough's one-woman, spoken word show, Tales and Tunes of an African American Griot. She toured nationally with this show during the 1970s and 1980s. Yarbrough's...

Serge Le Griot, is a Congolese musician, poet, songwriter, and blogger from North Kivu province. Ngoy Lusungu Serge, known as "Serge Le Griot", was born...

called "rap music". Precursors to modern rap music include the West African griot tradition, certain vocal styles of blues and jazz, an African-American insult...