Toumani Diabaté

male, 44 years old
Toumani Diabaté is a Malian kora player who has gained international acclaim for his music. He is a versatile performer, being equally at home w...
Foday Musa Suso

Foday Musa Suso

male
Foday Musa Suso (b. Sarre Hamadi Village, Wuli District, in the Upper River Division of eastern Gambia) is a musician and composer from the West...

Mory Kanté

male, 59 years old
Mory Kanté is an acclaimed vocalist and player of the kora harp. He was born into one of Guinea's best known families of griot (hereditary) m...
Tunde Jegede

Tunde Jegede

male, 37 years old
Tunde Jegede, is a British born Malian musician renown for his repertoires of African Classical Music. African Classical Music refers to the music...

N'Faly Kouyate

male
N'Faly Kouyate is a Guinean musician. He is a member of the Mandingue culture of West Africa. In 1994 Kouyate moved to Belgium and formed his...
Moussa Kouyate

Moussa Kouyate

male
Moussa Kouyate is a kora player from Bamako, Mali. His father, Batrou Sekou Kouyate, was arguably one of the best kora players of his generation.

Sidiki Diabaté

male
Sidiki Diabaté is a Malian Kora player known throughout West Africa as "the King of the Kora." He is regarded as one of the greatest kora players o...

William Parker

male, 57 years old
William Parker (b. Bronx, New York City, New York, January 10, 1952) is an American free jazz double bassist. As a bassist, Parker is possessed of...

Kandia Kouyaté

female
Kandia Kouyaté is a Malian jelimuso (singer, a female griot) and kora player; she has earned the prestigious title of ngara, and is sometimes a...
Pops Mohamed

Pops Mohamed

male, 59 years old
Ismael Mohamed-Jan (b. 1949) is a respected South African multi-instrumentalist, jazz musician and producer. Born 10 December 1949 in Benoni,...