Mor Thiam

Mor Dogo Thiam (born 22 May 1941) is a Senegalese musician, cultural historian, and entertainment consultant. His surname is pronounced "Chahm".

Thiam recorded his first album, Ndende Safarra, in 1974 ^[1] with B. B. King and Nancy Wilson to help victims of an African drought. The group was invited by President Nixon to perform at the White House in Washington D.C.

From 1990 to 1995, Thiam was part of Don Pullen & the African-Brazilian Connection, and recorded four albums as a member of Pullen's band.

In 1999, Thiam recorded his second album Back to Africa.^[2]

In 2009, Thiam made the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and devoted his life to the development of Darou Khafour and building the Mor Thiam Learning Center International School (MTLC).

Thiam resides between Orlando, Florida and Dakar, Senegal, and is the father to singer Aliaune Badara Thiam, more popularly known as Akon, and Bu Thiam.^{[3] [4]}

• Mor Thiam page on L'Observatoire Leonardo des Arts et des Techno-Sciences

• 1941 births
• Living people
• Musicians from Dakar
• Avant-garde jazz musicians
• Senegalese drummers
• Senegalese Muslims
• 20th-century drummers
• 20th-century male musicians
• 21st-century drummers
• 21st-century male musicians
• University of California, Los Angeles faculty
• Southern Illinois University faculty
• Morris Brown College faculty

• CS1 French-language sources (fr)
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