First Name

boty

AIM/Yahoo/MSN

constantboty@yahoo.com

College/University:

Institut Nationale Superieure des Arts et d`Actions Culturelles

I am here for:

Gigs, Job Inquiries, Educational Purposes, Meet Players, Networking, Other

Whom I want to meet:

Musicians, Producer, Journalists, friends

Employment Status

Not Specified

Occupation:

Guitarist, Composer

Employer:

Dominion School of Music Accra Ghana

About Me:

Just like several other outstanding guitar players, Constant Boty is simply a talented West African Jazz Fusion guitarist who has dedicated himself since childhood to the African traditional music patterns in Jazz, and he is one of the finest guitarist, vocalist, arranger, composer and critic in West Africa. A professional musician when in 1998 he entered the School of Arts Studies (Lycee d..Enseignments Artistiques Abidjan) and was latter in 2001 admitted to the prestigious National Institute of Arts (Institut Nationale Superieure des Arts et d.Actions Culturelles). For his Impressive Skills in Arranging, his sense of Harmonization and developing a lyrical, improvisational style with roots in Afro Beat, Jazz, Blues and Classical, Boty name was flying on air which He was elected to compose a song for Radio Nostalgie , played onstage with French born composer and songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman: and in Jazz clubs with Norman Brown, Jonathan Buttler, Legendary drummer Paco Sery, Henri Gaobi, Meiway, Aicha Kone,Ki Yi Mbock,Larry Cheik, Cameroonian Jazz pioneer late Jules Tchato (one of my best teacher, said Boty) and played with Crystal Night Club band, Zigzag Jazz Club , 37.2 Band , though Boty gained a larger and wider audience than most other successful musician. Since May 15th 2008, Boty settled in Accra Ghana where he.s very busy working and trying to understand Ghana traditional music (an ethnomusicology work), studio sessions, meditating on his own compositions. Boty teaches Guitar, Harmony and Music history at Dominion School of Music Accra... Also Performing Guitar master class in music schools and cultural centre showing and teaching his impressive finger style concepts ... Boty ..s great project right now is the recordings and release of his first solo album of 7 tracks.

Musical Background & Experience:

Afro Beat ... Jazz ...

Website:

http://www.myspace.com/constantbotymusics

Website:

http://www.kaago.co.uk/boty%20constant.htm

Why I love jazz:

Because I want to be a furious Composer and improviser like Pat Metheny ... And at last because Jazz music has freed me from being monotonious in life !!!

Music:

Pat Metheny

Top 5 Desert Island Discs:

Letter from home -Pat Metheny
Gosh town - Bill Frisel
Decoy- Miles Davis
Strange Liberation- Dave Douglas
Communion - John Patitucci

Books:

Baruch Spinoza

Television:

World News

Movies:

Romance