Английская Википедия:Bassekou Kouyate
Bassekou Kouyate (born 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba.
Life and career
He was born into the Kouyate family in Garana, Barouéli Cercle, 60 kilometres from Ségou, in 1966.[1] At the age of 12, he started playing the ngoni. In the late 1980s he moved to the capital, Bamako.[2]
Kouyate's debut album, Segu Blue,[3] was released internationally in 2007 by Outhere Records and distributed in the U.K. by Proper Music Distribution. The album was produced by Lucy Durán.[2] He has also appeared on a number of albums by Toumani Diabaté[2] and has performed in several European countries.[2] In 2010, Kouyaté toured with Béla Fleck.
Kouyate's wife, Amy Sacko, is also a successful solo artist and sings lead in his band.[2][4] His father, Mustapha Kouyate, was a ngoni player and his mother Yagaré Damba was a praise singer.[1] Kouyate, together with Amy Sacko and Ngoni ba, appeared at The 2013 Proms.[5]
Discography
- Albums
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Segu Blue (Outhere Records, 2007)
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: I Speak Fula (Outhere Records, 2009)
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Jama Ko (Outhere Records, 2013)
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Ba Power (Glitterbeat Records, 2015)
- Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba: Miri (Outhere Records, 2019)
- Contributing artist
Filmography
- 2008: Throw Down Your Heart, by Sascha Paladino: Himself
- 2013: The Africa Express, by Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tullaye: Himself
- 2016: Easy Man, by Jasper Cremers and Dennis de Groot: Himself
- 2016: Mali Blues, by Lutz Gregor: Himself
Awards
- 2008 – BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music – Album of the Year & African Artist of the Year[6]
References
External links
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: Bassekou Kouyate
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 Fly Global Music, March 10, 2007: Bassekou Kouyaté – Blue Like a River to a Desert Шаблон:Webarchive
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Allmusic.com entry on Amy Sacko
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ BBC3 Awards for World Music winners 2008
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