Τoumani Diabaté and Sidiki Diabaté - Salimou

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TOUMANI DIABATÉ

Toumani Diabaté is one of the most creatively prolific and successful musicians on the African continent, and was described by the Observer as "one of the world's most pre-eminent musicians in any genre". He plays the kora, a harp with 21 strings unique to West Africa. More than any other kora player, it's Toumani who is responsible for bringing this instrument to audiences around the world. He's a performer of truly exceptional virtuosity and creativity - someone who has shown that the kora can rival the world's greatest instruments.

SIDIKI DIABATÉ

Born in Bamako, Mali in 1990, Sidiki Diabate is a kora-player and hip hop producer and the latest addition to the celebrated Diabate musical dynasty. He is the eldest son of the world's greatest kora player Toumani Diabaté, and the grandson of Sidiki Diabaté senior (1922-96) who was considered the greatest player of his generation. Like his father, and his grandfather before him Sidiki is a griot - a custodian of the ancient oral traditions of West Africa's Mandé people, which stretches back, father-to-son for over seven hundred years.

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