Biography
Kélétigui Diabaté is really a master from the balafon, a xylophone-like device with rosewood keys suspended on the bamboo framework over gourd resonators. A creator of Development A, among Mali’s first rings, in the first ’60s, Diabaté continued to play using the Ambassadors and guitarist Salif Keita. Since 1993, Diabaté offers performed in Mali using the Symmetric Orchestra, a music group he stocks with kora participant Toumani Diabaté (no connection) and ngoni participant Bassekou Kouyate.