ISABELLE GUIDON

Musician Poly Percussionist

Musical styles: electro, African percussion, Afro-Brazilian batucada percussion, circus companies, funk, afro beat, salsa, French and English songs, pop rock, zouk, jazz etc.

Instruments practiced: African percussions (djembe, dum-dum, krin), Latin (congas, bongos, cajon, shime, bells and claves, guiero, patuwapa, shime) Brazilian (timbao, surdo, caixa, repinic, the whole batucada) and Caribbean (roller, tibois and ka).

ISABELLE GUIDON

Musician Poly Percussionist

Musical styles: electro, African percussion, Afro-Brazilian batucada percussion, circus companies, funk, afro beat, salsa, French and English songs, pop rock, zouk, jazz etc.

Instruments practiced: African percussions (djembe, dum-dum, krin), Latin (congas, bongos, cajon, shime, bells and claves, guiero, patuwapa, shime) Brazilian (timbao, surdo, caixa, repinic, the whole batucada) and Antillaises (roller, tibois and ka).

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ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS

Big sick body, M Mathieu Chedid, Oxmo Puccino, Camille, Julien Lourau, Ibrahim Maalouf, Kery James, Keziah Jones, Tony Allen, Inor Sotolongo, Simone Sou, Roger Kom, Roberta Paim- Zalinde, Difekako, Wendell Bara etc.

ARTISTIC DIRECTIONS

ZaLINDE Music Co-Director: Three-time Batucada Competition Champion
(2007 – 2010 and 2015)

Co-artistic and musical director of TAG Group:
Playing the drum proves to be a clever balance between technicality and musicality
French drum performance and African percussion
Seoul Drum Festival – tours in South Korea, Republican Guard etc.

Isabelle started percussion at the age of 15 by moving into the world of African percussion. During her many trips to Africa (Mali and Guinea), she trained with the great masters (Mohamed bangoura “Red Devil”, Dartagnan Camara, Petit Adama Diarra, Lasina Danté “Siné”, Lamine “Balany” Traoré and Famoro Kouyaté (Balafonist of Loby Traoré) following them in traditional Manding ceremonies.

In France, Isabelle works with masters such as Orlando Poléo Vénézuelien, Brazilian master Marivaldo Paim (first Mestre d’Ilé Aye in Brazil) and Boubacar Dembele (Malian percussionist mathieu Chedid).

She has performed in Bercy, Zenith, L’Olympia, Le Bataclan, Dubai Summer Festival, Seoul Drum Festival, Alger Samba Festival, Samba Festival de Coburg, Berlin Samba Syndrom, London Brazilian Day, Paris Jazz à la vilette, Stade de France, Le New Morning, Le Divan du Monde, Le Kab de Genève, etc.)

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