Geoffrey Oryema
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- 2015-12-12 Alter Schlachthof Eupen, BE
- 2015-10-16 Salisbury Arts Centre Salisbury, GB
- 2013-11-09 Forum St-Georges Delémont, CH
About Geoffrey Oryema
Most artists have to pay their dues, but very few have to be smuggled out of their birth countries to avoid death on the way. But for Geoffrey Oryema, that was the only way to survive. Born in Uganda, he was the son of a civil servant who was a police chief and then a cabinet minister and from his father he learned the local folk music, as well as the nanga (the harp), in addition to studying Western music in school. However, these were dangerous times in the country, with the mad dictator Idi Amin in power, and in 1977, Oryema's father fell victim, being one of many who was murdered by the...
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