Bassekou Kouyate (born 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba.
He was born into the Kouyate family in Garana, Barouéli Cercle, 60 kilometres from Ségou, in 1966.Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: Bassekou Kouyate At the age of 12, he started playing the ngoni. In the late 1980s he moved to the capital, Bamako.Fly Global Music, March 10, 2007: Bassekou Kouyaté – Blue Like a River to a Desert
Kouyate's debut... more
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