Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ...

When Toumani was born in Bamako in 1965, neither his surname Diabaté or his instrument, the kora, an iconic 21-stringed African harp, were familiar to anyone outside the Mande region. By the time ...

The kora is a 21-string harp of African origin, according to ... the United States and didn't realize what happened to the instrument until he got home. The musician blamed the TSA on his ...

Diabate, a renowned master of the kora—a traditional West African stringed instrument—died at a private clinic in Bamako, the capital of Mali. Born in 1965 into a family of griots, Diabate was ...

Dawda plays the 21 stringed Kora, an indigenous West African instrument. Expect some magic as the Kashmiri 100 stringed Santoor would be paired with the Kora for the very first time ever ...

Diabate, who died on Friday at the age of 58, was considered a virtuoso of African stringed instrument the kora - a "king of kora" in Mali and beyond. His countrywoman Oumou Sangare, a Grammy ...

By Giovanni Russonello Toumani Diabaté, a virtuoso of the kora, a 21-stringed West African instrument, which he often put into dialogue with other musical traditions from around the globe ...

Toumani Diabaté will be remembered around the world for his mastery of the kora, the 21-string musical instrument beloved across West Africa. Malians remember him in many more ways: the ...

These incredible feats are set to the contemporary rhythms of live Afro-Jazz, percussion, and the enchanting sounds of the kora, an iconic West African string instrument. The performance is a ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ...