Career Overview
About Kweku Sumbry
Sumbry's official biography identifies him as a Washington, D.C., multi-percussionist, composer, sound practitioner, and bandleader whose training began at age four with his uncle Mahiri Fadjimba Keita and the Djembe Orchestra tradition.[1]
He now serves as artistic director of Farafina Kan and is a core member of the Immanuel Wilkins Quartet. His biography specifically credits his percussion across the quartet's first three Blue Note albums while also documenting work with Ganavya, Ambrose Akinmusire, Cyrus Chestnut, Solange, and Shabaka Hutchings.[1][3]