Vincent Nguini
Douma
World Music - African
Vincent Nguini
New Album
Douma
Written and Produced by Vincent Nguini
Guests: Andy Snitzer Jim Hines Tony Cedras Larry Farrow
A native of Cameroon (Central Africa), guitarist, composer, and arranger, Vincent Nguini was introduced to music by his grandfather through initiation into traditional drumming (ceremonial and drum communication). While in high school he gave up the drums and diligently began playing guitar up to eight hours a day.
In 1969 Vincent started playing standard jazz and pop music (The Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Deep Purple, The Who, Crosby Stills & Nash, Frank Zappa, etc.) in clubs and hotels.
By 1973 Vincent was ready to move to West Africa where he continued to play as a banc leader in Nigeria, Ghana, and the Ivory Coast. It was West Africa where in became very familiar with High Life Music.
Five years later Vincent moved to Paris and arranged music for various African artists. He joined Manu D'Bango's band as lead guitarist and also recorded with Henry Salvador, Slim Pezin, and Dikoto of Ossi Bissa.
In 1987 he moved to America and began playing with Paul Simon as one of the lead guitar players. Since then he has also recorded with Jimmy Buffet, The Neville Brothers, Chris Botti, Michael Brecker, Stanley Clark, Thelma Houston, CeCe Peniston, Etta James (Sisters of Glory), Anton Fig, Jonathan Butler, Hugh Masekela, Peterzaremba, Jeff Muller, Ruben Blade, Marc Anthony, Ethnita Hernandez, Annie Lenox, Peter Towson of the WHO etc...
In the last ten years, Vincent has written and produced five of his own albums; Symphony Bantu, Mezik Me Mvamba, Sunshine Day, the Traveler, and Douma.
World: African- Central