Soulezza Artists
LIONEL LOUEKE

LIONEL LOUEKE

BLUE NOTE RECORDING ARTIST, INTERNATIONAL TOURING GUITARIST

He belongs to the trio Gilfema with Massimo Biolcati and Ferenc Nemeth. They were both his classmates at Berklee in Boston. Gilfema recorded the albums Gilfema (2005) and Gilfema + 2 (2008) for ObliqSound. As a solo artist, Loueke recorded the live album In a Trance (2005) for Space Time Records and Virgin Forest (2006) for ObliqSound.

He made his major label debut in 2008 when Blue Note released their album Karibu. NPR praised its fusion of African music with jazz harmonies, vocal inflections and complex time signatures.

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