Mamadou Diabaté was born in 1975 in Kita, a Malian city long known as a center for the arts and culture of the Manding people of West Africa. As the name Diabate indicates, Mamadou comes from a family of griots, or jelis as they are known among the Manding. Jelis are more than just traditional musicians. They use music and sometimes oratory to preserve and sustain people's consciousness of the past, a past that stretches back to the 13th century when the Manding king Sunjata Keita consolidated the vast Empire of Mali...
Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF)
Chicago World Music Festival
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Mamadou Diabate has had 45 concerts.
Mamadou Diabate is most often considered to be Folk, World, Afropop, World Music, African, Africa, Mande Pop, Kora, Griot, and Balafon.
The last Mamadou Diabate concert was on December 04, 2019 at The Jazz Cafe in London, England, United Kingdom.
