Lionel Loueke: Exclusive LiveDaily Sessions Performance

Despite his poverty-stricken upbringing in the small West African country of Benin, jazz enthusiast Lionel Loueke [ tickets ] immersed himself in music from an early age, going to extremes to buy and care for his first guitar. In his late teens, Loueke attended the National Institute of Arts on the Ivory Coast with a focus on classical guitar studies, followed by stints at Paris' American School of Modern Music, Boston's Berklee College of Music and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at the University of Southern California. / Read more

Lionel Loueke: Exclusive Video Performance At LiveDaily Sessions [Jul 2008]

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