[1][2][3] Marie Samuel Njie was an important griot singer and cultural icon in her home country, The Gambia.
[4] Her songs were accompanied by a xalam, calabash, and sabar,[4] and were mainly about social and political issues as well as everyday life.
[7] He was a co-founder and lead singer of the Super Eagles and Ifang Bondi ( de ) bands, as well as a composer and songwriter.
Some of the legendary traditional female singers of her generation included the late Sosseh Jange; Yaham Nyang (commonly known as Ya Mundow Nyang or Yamoundow Nyang); and Ya Mundow Jobe (or Yamoundow Jobe), wife of renowned Gambian oral historian and xalam player Doudou Nying (commonly known as Dodou Nying Kol Yandeh or Dodou Nying Koliyandeh)—a regular on Radio Gambia and Radio Senegal's joint weekly history programme Chossani Senegambia from the 1970s.
[4][10][6] Marie Samuel Nice was a singing griot legend who composed songs for social harmony, social living, high society, politics, patrons of the arts, people's hobbies and life.