Here in Fol Música we work everyday to give every voice and type of music in the world the chance to be heard. This time we travel to western Africa, to Sierra Leone with SADAKA (THE GIFT), the latest album released by the great Sierra Leonean musician SEYDU.

SADAKA means THE GIFT in Krio, the lingua franca from Sierra Leone, Seydu’s country of origin. This country was one of the focal points of the slave trade in the eighteenth century and has also suffered a diamond war, a civil war and an Ebola epidemic.
In Sadaka, Seydu´s third album, he continues the tradition of the Fulha troubadours and keeps "Palm Wine Music" or "Maringa" alive, the original music from Sierra Leone and Liberia. He is now considered the successor of artists like Ebenezer, Calendar & His Maringa Band and S.E. Rogie.

SEYDU grew up listening to his mother singing, a mix of fullah and mandinga, and absorbing the rhythms coming from his grandfather banging the skins of the drums, experiences that became strong influences to define his musical identity. His life has been a real odyssey; he escaped the war at a very young age in a small boat and arrived at the Canary Islands as an illegal immigrant, but thanks to his talent and generous heart he managed to find his own place in the European and Spanish world music scene, playing with renowned musicians such as Kiko Veneno, Yossou N´Dour, Mariem Hassan or Cesaría Evora, and becoming one of the bests percussionists in our country.

He now lives between Madrid and Sierra Leone, where, in 2005 he founded the DIAMOND CHILD SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE, a non-governmental organization focused on teaching basic and artistic education to the underprivileged children and young people of his country, which now welcomes 300 students.