Fatoumata Diawara (born 1982) is a Malian musician currently living in France. Born in the Ivory Coast to Malian parents, Diawara moved to France…

Toumani Diabaté (born in Gallé, Mali, on 10 August 1965; died 19 July 2024) was a Malian kora player remembered for performing the traditional music…

Boubacar Traoré (born 1942 in Kayes, Mali) is a renowned singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Traoré, nicknamed "Kar Kar" ("the one who dribbles too…

Oumou Sangaré (born February 25, 1968 in Bamako) is a wassoulou musician from Bamako, Mali, sometime referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou."…

Israeli superstar Idan Raichel and Malian guitar virtuoso Vieux Farka Touré́ first met at an airport in Germany in 2008 while both were on tour.…

Taj Mahal describes him as a genius, a living proof that the blues comes from the region of Segu. Bassekou Kouyate is one of Mali's best-known…

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Bassekou Kouyaté (born in 1966 in Garana) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba.…

Jamaal "Mali Music" Pollard was born on January 12, 1988 in Phoenix, AZ. The Savannah based singer, songwriter, producer is breaking out of…

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Born on 15 June 1968, Samba grew up in Dabi, a small village in the Tombouctou region of Mali. Samba’s father passed away just before his birth,…

N'Gou Bagayoko (Mali)

N'Gou Bagayoko has been known among insiders as the guitarist of Nahawa Doumbia*. In fact, an encounter with a music…

Nahawa Doumbia is one of the most popular singers from the Wassoulou region in South Mali. She speaks to the younger generation of West Africa…

The Symmetric Orchestra led by Toumani Diabaté is composed of musicians (mostly griots) from across the old Mande Empire of west Africa, who play…

Idrissa Soumaoro, born near Bamako in 1949, is one of the relative unknowns in Malian music, taking part in a number of important developments, but…

Lobi Traoré (1961 – 1 June 2010) was a Malian musician. He was born in the village of Bakaridianna, on the Niger River close to Ségou and died in…

BKO Quintet’s music is born from a meeting between five established artists:
Ibrahima Sarr, powerful percussionist, masters with ease the sounds…

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

The sons of Sidiki Diabate, a kora-player known throughout West Africa, and Jelimadi Sissoko, his regular accompanist, Toumani and Ballake grew up…

Boncana Maïga is a flutist, vocalist, arranger and producer born in Mali.
In 1968 he co-founded in Cuba the musical group Las Maravillas de Mali,…

The Rail Band or Rail Band is one of the most popular musical groups in the history of Malian music; the band was later known as Super Rail Band,…

Abou Diarra is a Kamale'N'Goni player from from Mali. "Fascinated by the blues, jazz, afro piti, reggae, groove, rhythms and styles that blend…