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The newly independent state of Guinea established a number of music groups, competitions and festivals throughout the country to play the traditional musics of Guinea rather than the
European styles that were popular in the colonial period. The government also set up the Syliphone label to record the
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in 1962 following the break-up of the Syli
Orchestre National, Guinea's first state-sponsored group. Also called the Orchestre du Jardin de Guinée, after the "bar dancing" music venue in Conakry that still exists today, the group made a number of recordings for the state-owned Syliphone label and
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Guinea suffered a series of economic crises in the 1970s and in 1983 the national orchestras were all established as private concerns. In 1984 President Sekou Toure died, and the
Syliphone label ended. Balla et ses Balladins continued to play during the Lansana Conte era, and when Balla Onivogui
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when she lived in Guinea in the 1970s. In 1970 Balla had a falling-out with some government officials and was briefly replaced as leader by his friend and trombone player Pivi Moriba, to be restored following the intervention of president
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Balladins made a number of recordings for the state-owned Syliphone label, which was founded in 1968. The group also toured abroad representing Guinea and some members worked as backing musicians for
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become one of the first modern dance musical groups in Guinea to use traditional musical instruments and fuse together traditional
Guinean folk music with more modern influences.
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ensuing music and thus preserve and enhance the culture of the new nation. Balla et ses
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