Jimmy B
Jimmy B | |
|---|---|
| Born | Jimmy Bangura |
| Occupations | musician, filmmaker, producer and entertainer. |
Jimmy B, born Jimmy Bangura, is a Sierra Leonean musician, filmmaker, producer and entertainer.[1] He has been called the "Godfather of Sierra Leone music".[2]
Life
[edit | edit source]Jimmy B acted in the Eddie Murphy's 1988' romantic comedy Coming to America before moving to South Africa, setting up a music studio there and achieving success as a musician.[3] After the end of the Sierra Leone Civil War in 2002, Jimmy B facilitated the release of several hip hop albums and compilations from Paradise Studio.[4]
In 2014 Bangura privately funded Ebola 4 Go, a video educating people about ebola.[5] He has presented The Jimmy B Show, a radio show on Freetown's AiRadio which specializes in Sierra Leonean music.[6]
In 2019 his teenage son drowned in the United States of America.[7]
Films
[edit | edit source]- Paradise Island (2009)
- Guardian of the Throne (2014)
- A Stitch in Time (2014)
- The British Expert (2019)
References
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- ^ Ibrahim Tarawallie, West Africa: Top West African Musicians to Light Up Freetown, Concord Times, 9 October 2018.
- ^ Joe Lamin, Sierra Leone: The Rebirth of Sierra Leone Music; the Death of Its Virtue, Concord Times, 8 January 2004.
- ^ Kemurl Fofanah, Hip hop in Sierra Leone, Music in Africa, 15 Jan 2018.
- ^ Sierra Leone’s Most Beautiful People 2014, SwitSalone Magazine, 14 December 2014.
- ^ Esther Kamara, Music and media in Sierra Leone, Music in Africa, 18 September 2017.
- ^ Salone Borbor, Sadness, As Sierra Leone Veteran Singer Jimmy B Lost His Son Archived 2019-10-17 at the Wayback Machine, Salone Songs, June 2019.
External links
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