WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Episode 1268 - Kelefa Sanneh

Oct 7, 2021
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ANECDOTE

New Yorker Festival Interview

  • Marc Maron and Kelefa Sanneh reminisce about a past interview at the New Yorker Festival.
  • Maron jokingly claims he made Sanneh cry by playing clips from the show.
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Sanneh's Family Background

  • Kelefa Sanneh discusses his family background, with a Gambian father and a white South African mother.
  • His father, a historian of religion, grew up in Gambia and later taught at Harvard and Yale.
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Early Musical Influences

  • Sanneh's early musical influences included traditional Gambian music and hip hop.
  • At 14, a friend gave him a punk rock mixtape, which changed his musical perspective.
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