Amy Sacko

Dubbed “the Tina Turner of Mali” with the English music magazine MOJO, Amy Sacko includes a successful single career aswell as her role as the lead singer of Ngoni Ba, the strap led by her spouse, grasp ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate. Sacko was created in the town of Kayes in northwestern Mali, the child of a favorite local vocalist and guitarist. Elevated in Kayes and Dakar, Senegal, Sacko was trained to sing in the original griot design by her aunt Fanta Sacko, among the initial popular female performers in Western world Africa. Sacko’s debut record, Ben, premiered in Mali in 1997, nonetheless it was her second record, 2002’s Mali Denw, that was her well-known breakthrough; the name monitor spent ten weeks at number 1 in the Mali pop graph, and its reputation spread through the globe music picture. Performing live across many continents, Sacko also collaborated in the studio room with German jazz musician Leni Stern, performing business lead vocals on Stern’s 2006 and 2007 produces Alu Mayé (PERHAPS YOU HAVE Noticed) and Africa, and with American jazz vocalist Dee Dee Bridgewater on her behalf 2007 record, Red Earth. Following the release from the debut record by Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, 2007’s Segu Blue, Sacko released her eclectic third record, Dakan, in early 2008.