Aboutou Roots

It was in 1986 that the group was created in Lauzoa in the Grand Lahou region in the south of Ivory Coast. The musical style of this group is Youssoumba, a style resulting from popular songs and other village activities of lagoon peoples. Originally, it is practiced with a drum, a bottle and harmonized voices which sing together the scores of the vocal lead. But both in its traditional and modernized versions, Youssoumba is a very lively and dancing genre. Its typical lagoon sound connotation and its atmospheric rhythms have made it a very dancing and popular genre in Ivory Coast. The group is managed today by Boby Six, the most gifted artist manager of his generation in Ivory Coast.