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Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté
67,333 listeners
Collaboration between Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré and the Malian kora player Toumani Diabaté.
Released the album 'In the Heart of the Moon' in…
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Habib Koité & Bamada
143,847 listeners
Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of Africa's most popular and recognized musicians.
Habib Koité was born in 1958 in Thiès, a Senegalese town…
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Geoffrey Oryema
89,889 listeners
Geoffrey Oryema (16 April 1953 – 22 June 2018) was an internationally renowned Ugandan musician. In 1977 after the murder of his father, Erinayo…
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Cheikh Lô
78,133 listeners
Mbalax, the intricate dance music of Senegal, has been made more accessible to Western listeners by Cheikh Lô (born Cheikh N'Digel Lô). Softening…
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Ismaël Lô
86,003 listeners
Ismaël Lô is a versatile singer and artist, he plays the guitar and the harmonica. He was born in Dogondoutchi in Niger on 30 August 1956 to a…
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Afrocubism
53,015 listeners
AfroCubism is a collective of Cuban and Malian musicians brought together by World Circuit Records producer Nick Gold. Gold's original idea in the…
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Habib Koité
74,723 listeners
Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of Africa's most popular and recognized musicians.
Habib Koité was born in 1958 in Thiès, a Senegalese town…
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Wes
90,029 listeners
Wes Madiko first saw the light of day under the baobab tree in Moutaba, Cameroon which lies some hundred miles away from the city of Douala. From…
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Ayub Ogada
82,564 listeners
Ayub Ogada (Job Seda, Mombasa, Kenya, 1956 - 1 February 2019) was a Kenyan singer and nyatiti player. The nyatiti is a five to eight-stringed…
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Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder
88,304 listeners
Malian guitarist Ali Farka Touré and American guitarist/producer Ry Cooder in 1995 joined forces to record the Grammy award-winning album Talking…
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Oliver Mtukudzi
59,409 listeners
Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi (Harare, Zimbabwe, 22 September 1952 – 23 January 2019) was a Zimbabwean singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Mtukudzi…
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SHATTA WALE
10,910 listeners
Shatta Wale, real name Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr., born 1984, is a reggae-dancehall musician from Ghana.
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Oumou Sangare
116,745 listeners
Oumou Sangaré (born February 25, 1968 in Bamako) is a wassoulou musician from Bamako, Mali, sometime referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou."…
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Afel Bocoum
55,496 listeners
Afel Bocoum (born 1955) is a musician from Mali, noted as a singer and guitarist. He began his career as a member of Ali Farka Toure's group ASCO,…
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Mory Kanté
92,398 listeners
Mory Kanté (born in Kissidougou, Guinea, on 29 March 1950; died 22 May 2020) was an acclaimed Guinean vocalist and player of the kora harp. He is…
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Bembeya Jazz National
64,349 listeners
Bembaya Jazz National is a Guinean jazz group that gained fame in the 1960s for their infectious Afropop rhythms. They are considered one of the…
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Owiny Sigoma Band
56,838 listeners
In 2009, a handful of London-based musicians travelled to Nairobi in Kenya to collaborate with local musicians there. The project was set up by…
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Issa Bagayogo
68,710 listeners
Issa Bagayogo (1961 - October 10, 2016) was a Malian singer and he played the kamele n'goni (plucked lute from West Africa*).
Bagayogo blends his…
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King Sunny Ade
54,907 listeners
King Sunny Adé (Sunday Adeniyi, born 1946) is by far the most popular performer of Nigerian Jùjú music. With his band, King Sunny Ade and His…
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Papa Wemba
59,420 listeners
Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba commonly known as Papa Wemba (June 14, 1949 – April 24, 2016) was a Congolese rumba, later known as soukous,…
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Dobet Gnahoré
44,092 listeners
Dobet Gnahoré, a singer, dancer and percussionist from the Ivory Coast, inherited the force of the “Bété“ tradition from her father, Boni…