We are family: Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté at their home in Kora Credit: Photo: Youri Lenquette Malian kora virtuoso Toumani Diabaté is one of the world’s most creative and personally formidable ...

The last album of kora duets Toumani Diabaté played on was New Ancient Strings in 1997 on which he played with Ballaké Sissoko. The pair’s fathers were Sidiki Diabaté and Djelimadi Sissoko – the kora ...

Toumani Diabaté is widely considered to be the greatest living kora player, and for almost three decades he's been bringing the rich musical heritage of Mali and West Africa to audiences around the ...

"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, 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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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Toumani Diabate comes on the line from his Paris hotel. "Bonjour, Toumani," I open, in my lame schoolboy French. He fires back in a ...

Toumani Diabaté has collaborated with the likes of Herbie Hancock, Damon Albarn, Taj Mahal, Ali Farka Touré and Björk during a career that has spanned decades. Now the Malian kora player teams with ...

Toumani Diabaté is a musical giant. The Malian kora player has collaborated with Björk, bluesman Taj Mahal, guitar wizard Ali Farka Touré, Gorillaz/Blur polymath Damon Albarn.… The list goes on, and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Toumani Diabate comes on the line from his Paris hotel. "Bonjour, Toumani," I open, in my lame schoolboy French. He fires back in a ...