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418: 404: 192:. This band had recently returned from eight years in Cuba. Around 1976, the band changed its name to National Badema du Mali, but by the mid-1980s, its big band sound was no longer popular. Kassé Mady joined the expanding number of West African musicians who immigrated to Paris, where he released two solo albums. 143:, known as the capital of griots with a rich musical tradition. The Diabaté family was one of the two biggest griots families. Their ancestor Morykaba Diabaté took part in fighting with 123:. His soft and particular voice with deep undertones – an atypical characteristic for a griot – earned him the nickname "The golden voice of Mali". He is considered, together with 740: 275: 811: 506: 646: 768: 318:
in 2015 as singer and arranger of several "chants de griot", on a series of concerts (including the Saint-Denis festival) and the recording of the album
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In 1998 he returned to Mali, where there was a rebirth of interest in traditional acoustic music. In 1999, he made a guest appearance on the album
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at the age of 69, following a stroke. His daughter Hawa Kassé Mady Diabaté is also a singer and a vocalist at
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Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Professor Emmanuel Akyeampong; Mr. Steven J. Niven (February 2, 2012).
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was released in 1989 and featured hi-tech sounds. A year later, he released a more acoustic album
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which he worked on with Brincando Na Roda, was nominated for the
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project enabled the creation of his autobiographical album
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In the early 1970s Kassé Mady Diabaté started singing with
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There Was A Time (with African Classical Music Ensemble)
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Index

Kangaba
Mali
Bamako
Folk
world music
Kangaba
Mali
Bamako
griot
Salif Keita
Mandinka
Koulikoro Region
Soundjata
Siramori Diabaté
Bintu'amma
ngoni
Abdoulaye Diabaté
Abdoulaye Diabaté
Biennale
flamenco
blues
Toumani Diabaté
Kulanjan
Taj Mahal
kora
n'goni
balafon
BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music
Grammy Award
Best Traditional World Music Album

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