KENYAN EXPORTED HIS GUITAR WIZARDRY TO CANADA

KENYAN EXPORTED HIS GUITAR WIZARDRY TO CANADA

ADAM NDARO SOLOMON is a multi-talented musician who was a 2005 Juno Award Winner and a double winner at TAMA (Toronto African Music Awards) for Best Release and Best New Performers in 1997. Adam was born in Mombasa, Kenya, and began performing at an early age, playing kivoti (flute) and kayaamba (shaker) at village celebrations and festivals.

He established his career playing lead guitar and singing on recordings and videos with Kenya's most popular bands and musicians, including Joseph Kamaru, Daudi Kabaka, Zetta success band, Kabasselleh Ochieng, Bana Citoyen, Super Kalles, Bana Batoto, Super Mazembe, Less Wanyika, Popo Lipo of Lessa Lessan, Professor Mb. Naaman with the Nine Stars band, Kanda Bongo Man, Fadhili Williams, Juma Toto, and the Mombasa Roots band. Adam's touring credits include workshops and performances with Congolese superstar Papa Wemba and Ismael Lo from Senegal.

Adam was a co-founder of Canada's great pan-African band, the Afronubians, with whom he toured western Canada in 1993. He collaborated with them for two CD releases, "Tour To Africa" (1994) and "The Great Africans" (1995). Adam collaborated on Show Do Man's release "Trouble Trouble" (1994), also on Tae Kwarro's CD in the year 2000 by Achilla Orru.

He has released three of his own CDs, including "Safari" in 1996 and "Rocket Express II: African Renaissance Blues" in 2003. Adam formed his own band, Tikisa, in 1995, with whom he continues to tour. Their CD, "Mti wa Maisha/Tree of Life" was released in the spring of 2006. In 2007, Adam released "Roots Rhythms (Magoma Asili)", an homage to the traditional rhythms of the Mijikenda (Nine Tribes) people. Adamu and Abbu are the guitarists featured on most of the tracks on World Defeats the Grandfathers, a compilation of recordings made between 1982 and 1986 by Issa Juma.

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