Tag Archives: Abdoulaye Diabaté

The African Virtuosos contain three brothers in one of African music’s most influential families. Abdoulaye, Sire, and Sékou Diabaté result from a long type of griots, or troubadours, storytellers, and kora players. Although brothers’ mastery from the kora (a guitar-like device of African good) was anticipated, theirs was the 1st …

The original West African sounds of balofon and ngoni are coupled with keyboards and education by Mali-born vocalist and drummer Abdoulaye Diabate. While rooted in the Bombara noises of such Wassolou performers as Oumou Sangare, Diabate is well known for the incredibly raw noises of his vocals. Diabate started performing …