Ballaké Sissoko (b. 1968), is a noted kora player, from Mali.

He has worked with many notable artists, including: Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal.…

Sona Jobarteh is the first female Kora virtuoso to come from the West African Jobarteh griot family. She is the granddaughter of the Master…

Ablaye Cissoko is a kora musician from Senegal. His show is called "Le Griot Rouge" (named after his second album) sounds about the legend of…

Seckou Keita (born 14 February 1978) is a Senegalese kora player and drummer. He is a charismatic live performer and one of the few champions of…

Ballaké Sissoko (born 1968) is a noted player of the kora. He has worked with Toumani Diabaté and Taj Mahal and several others. He can be heard…

Lubiana (full name Lubiana Kepaou), born on December 12, 1993 in Belgium, is a Belgian-Cameroonian performer.

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Born to a Cameroonian father…

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1) Sidiki Diabaté was a Malian Kora player known throughout West Africa as "the King of the Kora." He was…

Tunde Jegede (b. 1972) is a composer, musician and audio-visual artist and a true visionary of the 21st century from London, United Kingdom.

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Djeli Moussa Diawara (also known as Jali Musa Jawara) is born in a family of Guinean griots, hereditary caste of musicians. His father was a…

Jacques Burtin (born 10 November 1955) is a French composer, writer, producer and filmmaker.
After studying Literature and Art at La Sorbonne…

“He doesn’t speak any French, and I speak no English… but through music, we understand.” - Sekou Kouyate

Sekou Kouyate was raised in a…

Foday Musa Suso (b. Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, Gambia) is a musician and composer from the West African nation of Gambia. He is a member…

In a rare father-and-son collaboration, Toumani Diabaté, genius of African music and widely recognised as the greatest living kora player, has…

This group is the association of two Swiss artists, the guitarist Marc Liebeskind and the double bassist Christophe Erard with the Guinean kora…

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Born into the great line of Kouyate Griot in Southern Senegal, Kadialy Kouyate’s kora playing and singing style, both as a soloist and in different…

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Sourakata Koité was born in 1955 in Malème, Senegal, a Malinke-speaking area. As Sourakata says, "All the Koité are musicians!" He is indeed a…

Alhaji Bai Konte (b. 1920; d. 1982 or 1983) was a jali (praise singer) from Brikama, Gambia. He played the 21-string kora and is believed to have…

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