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This article is about the Guinean singer. For the football player, see Demba Camara.

Aboubacar Demba Camara (1944 – 5 April 1973) was a Guinean singer and songwriter.

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He led the band Bembeya Jazz National from 1963 until his death.

Biography

Aboubacar Demba Camara was born in 1944 in Conakry, French Guinea to a family from Saraya, a station of Kouroussa. He attended the Coléa primary school until 1952, when he transferred to a school in Kankan.

In 1957 he returned to Conakry to finish his primary studies before going back to Kankan where he enrolled in a vocational school and earned his certification as a cabinetmaker.

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In 1963 he moved to the town of Beyla in southern Guinea to work.^[1]

Demba Camara joined the band Bembeya Jazz National in 1963. He became its leader, lead vocalist, and primary songwriter. At the height of his popularity, Demba Camara was declared the top African singer by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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