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ARTIST INFORMATION | Mamadou Kouyaté

Country of Origin: Mali

Performance years with AKMP: 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017

ABOUT

Mamadou Kouyaté, the eldest son of ngoni maestro Bassekou Kouyaté, underpins the music with punchy bass lines on a large ngoni, West Africa’s oldest string instrument. One of the members of Trio Da Kali, who hail from the Mande culture of Mali, from a heritage of distinguished griots, the caste of specialist hereditary music

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