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Musicians in Mali continue to create music even in the face of persecution and violence. Mali traditionally has been renowned for its musical roots especially by the “Desert blues” guitarist Ali Farka Touré. Post-2012, the musical prohibition of Mali has indirectly promoted Malian music by its exposure to western mainstream music.
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Mali is a country known for its jalis (or jelis), oral historians also known as griots and the traditions of the kora (West African harp), the ngoni lute and bala (west African xylophone), as well as the Tuareg music in the north.
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- Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate - 'In The Heart of the Moon' Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate took home a Grammy Award in 2006 for this stunning acoustic album, featuring primarily just Toure's guitar and Diabate's kora, blending Songhai and Bambara musical traditions into something both ancient and quietly modern.
- Amadou & Mariam - 'Dimanche a Bamako' This hip and upbeat CD by Afropop stars Amadou et Mariam was produced by genre-busting global superstar Manu Chao, and it shows.
- Habib Koite - 'Afriki' Habib Koite is well-versed in the wide variety of regional sounds that make up Mali's vast musical landscape, and he blends them with a modern sophistication that makes his music accessible to audiences around the globe.
- Oumou Sangare - 'Seya' Oumou Sangare is a singer who comes from the Wassoulou region, of which Southern Mali is a part. Seya, which means "joy," is indeed just that — it's a deeply joyful look at love and life and even death, from the perspective of a strong and uncompromising African woman, one with a voice of gold, no less.
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Oct 19, 2015 · Malian music has been acclaimed for decades on the world's most eclectic stages. Dozens of artists, deeply rooted in their ancestral customs, have taken the sounds of this Sahel landlocked African country far beyond national and continental borders.
