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Lamine Touré is a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializing in World Music. He is the director of Rambax, MIT's Senegalese Drum Ensemble, and comes from a long line of griots, who are caste musicians and oral historians of the Wolof people in Senegal. Born into a prominent family of sabar drummers, Lamine began drumming and dancing at the age of four and has established himself as one of Senegal's leading percussionists. His career in Senegalese popular music began in 1995 with Mapenda Seck and continued with Nder et le Setsima Group from 1997 to 2001, where he toured extensively across Senegal, Europe, and North America, performing at renowned venues such as Bercy in Paris, the Barbican Center in London, and the Festival International de Jazz in Montréal. In addition to his performances, Lamine founded the Group Saloum, a Boston-based Afropop band that fuses elements of Senegalese mbalax with jazz, funk, reggae, and Afrobeat. Since 2001, he has been teaching Senegalese drumming at MIT and organizing cultural immersion programs for students in Senegal. In 2005, he co-wrote a pioneering composition, Sabar Gong, which features sabar drums and Balinese gamelan and premiered during the inauguration of President Hockfield. His excellence in teaching has been recognized with the SHASS Levitan Teaching Prize in 2010. Lamine has also taught and performed at Boston College, Suffolk University, Boston University, Harvard University, and K-12 schools in New England.