About: Albert Ssempeke

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org:8891

Albert Ssempeke was a musician known for Baganda Music. He was also a royal musician to the Kabaka of Buganda, presumably Mutesa II of Buganda. Albert's album Ssempeke! is music from the pre-independence era of Buganda.

Property	Value
dbo:abstract	Albert Ssempeke was a musician known for Baganda Music. He was also a royal musician to the Kabaka of Buganda, presumably Mutesa II of Buganda. Albert's album Ssempeke! is music from the pre-independence era of Buganda. At age 11, Albert began playing the endere flute. He was tutored by the royal flautists and rose as a court musician. He also added the lyre, drums, and the eight-stringed kiganda harp to his repertoire. After the kingdom of Buganda was dissolved by Milton Obote, royal music declined because many refused to play it. The reign of Idi Amin led to its further decline when many people fled. By the 1980s, most people had either forgotten royal music or died, which left Albert as one of the last royal musicians, making him of interest to ethnomusicologists. In 1987, he was invited by Peter Cooke to be a Musician in Residence at the University of Edinburgh. (en)
dbo:instrument	dbr:Drum dbr:Lyre
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink	http://womad.org/%3Fartist_id=1024 https://web.archive.org/web/20070313204309/http:/www.amadinda.co.uk/ssempeke.do https://web.archive.org/web/20140222162750/http:/diginole.lib.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle=2709&context=etd
dbo:wikiPageID	7029743 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength	2783 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID	1023348732 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink	dbr:Baganda_Music dbr:University_of_Edinburgh dbc:Living_people dbc:Place_of_birth_missing_(living_people) dbc:Year_of_birth_missing_(living_people) dbr:Mutesa_II_of_Buganda dbr:Buganda dbr:Drum dbr:Ethnomusicology dbr:Kabaka_of_Buganda dbc:Ugandan_musicians dbr:Idi_Amin dbr:Milton_Obote dbr:Lyre
dbp:instrument	Endere flute, lyre, drums, kiganda harp (en)
dbp:name	Albert Ssempeke (en)
dbp:origin	Uganda (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate	dbt:Africa-musician-stub dbt:Infobox_musical_artist dbt:No_footnotes dbt:Uganda-bio-stub
dcterms:subject	dbc:Living_people dbc:Place_of_birth_missing_(living_people) dbc:Year_of_birth_missing_(living_people) dbc:Ugandan_musicians
gold:hypernym	dbr:Musician
rdf:type	owl:Thing foaf:Person dbo:Person dul:NaturalPerson schema:MusicGroup wikidata:Q19088 wikidata:Q215627 wikidata:Q483501 wikidata:Q5 wikidata:Q729 dbo:Animal dbo:Eukaryote dbo:Species schema:Person yago:WikicatLivingPeople yago:WikicatUgandanMusicians yago:Artist109812338 yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:Creator109614315 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Musician110339966 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo dbo:Artist dbo:MusicalArtist yago:Whole100003553
rdfs:comment	Albert Ssempeke was a musician known for Baganda Music. He was also a royal musician to the Kabaka of Buganda, presumably Mutesa II of Buganda. Albert's album Ssempeke! is music from the pre-independence era of Buganda. (en)
rdfs:label	Albert Ssempeke (en)
owl:sameAs	freebase:Albert Ssempeke yago-res:Albert Ssempeke wikidata:Albert Ssempeke dbpedia-sw:Albert Ssempeke https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4Mk8w dbr:Albert Ssempeke
prov:wasDerivedFrom	wikipedia-en:Albert_Ssempeke?oldid=1023348732&ns=0
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf	wikipedia-en:Albert_Ssempeke
foaf:name	Albert Ssempeke (en)
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of	dbr:Baganda_music
is foaf:primaryTopic of	wikipedia-en:Albert_Ssempeke