Toumani, often credited as the world’s greatest exponent of the kora, the West African harp-lute, is touring for the first time with his son Sidiki, who apart from inheriting his family’s dynastic ...

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"He played those 21 strings with love." That's the great American banjo player Bela Fleck talking about his duets with Toumani Diabaté of Mali — including the crowd-pleaser "Dueling Banjos." Fleck ...

Toumani Diabaté carries the history of 71 generations in his fingers. An unsurpassed master of the kora, the 21-string harp played throughout the West African territory once encompassed by the vast ...

IT cannot be often that a roadie receives a round of applause for bringing an instrument on stage. Then again, the kora is no ordinary instrument.. From a distance, this a 21-string harp looks like ...

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“G’DAY mate’’ Toumani Diabate laughs from Paris, where he has just arrived home by train after performing in Geneva the night before. “Because of the snow, the train was very late,’’ he apologises.

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Toumani Diabaté, who sadly passed away in July of 2024 (described as “a ...

Kuami Eugene has come under public backlash for allegedly ‘stealing’ Malian artiste Sidiki Diabaté’s song ‘Fais Moi Confiance’ for his latest single, ‘Confusion.’ Speaking to DJ Perfekt on the ‘Party ...

Musician Toumani Diabaté of Mali and his 21-string kora, photographed at WOMAD -- the World of Music, Arts and Dance festival held yearly in the United Kingdom. Diabaté died on July 19 at age 58. "He ...