Before European-derived concepts of career management became widespread among African recording artists, following the emergence of the world music movement in the late 1980s and 1990s, a musician's ...

Sidiki Camara is an unique percussionist and artist from Mali who moved to Norway in 2010 and has since then started working with some of the greatest within Norwegian Jazz. They are Sidiki Camara ...

MALI is a powerhouse of West African music, having produced Salif Keita, Amadou and Mariam and Toumani Diabaté, among others. Whatever it is about the country that leads to such musicality, Oumou ...

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Mali’s “king of kora” Toumani Diabaté died last Friday, 19 July, at the age of 58, after a short illness, the musician’s family announced on social media. “My dear dad is gone forever,” the Malian ...

"My dear dad is gone forever," the Malian great's son Sidiki Diabate, who is also a musician, wrote on Facebook. Toumani Diabate was a master of the African stringed instrument, the kora. He died at a ...