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Mali Music worked with Arden "Keyz" Altino, Oliver "Akos" Castelli, Akene Dunkley, Jerry "Wonda" Duplessis, Andre Harris, Stephen McGregor, and Kortney Pollard on the production of this album. The album's lead single is "Beautiful".
Kortney Jamaal Pollard (born January 12, 1988), known professionally as Mali Music, [2] is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from Savannah, Georgia. His first two studio albums, The Coming (2008) and The 2econd Coming (2009) were released independently through ByStorm Records and met with critical acclaim. [ 3 ]
The music of Mali is, like that of most West African nations, ethnically diverse, but one influence predominates: that of the ancient Mali Empire of the Mandinka (from c. 1230 to c. 1600). Mande people (Bambara, Mandinka, Soninke) make up around 50% of Mali 's population; other ethnic groups include the Fula (17%), Gur-speakers 12%, Songhai ...
Tinariwen (Tamasheq: ⵜⵏⵔⵓⵏ; with vowels ⵜⵉⵏⴰⵔⵉⵡⵉⵏ; plural of ténéré meaning "desert" [1]) is a collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of southern Algeria and of northern Mali, in the region of Azawad.
“I put these two words together to symbolize the music of all ethnic groups in Mali. I'm curious about all the music in the world, but I make music from Mali. In my country, we have so many beautiful rhythms and melodies. Many villages and communities have their own kind of music. Usually, Malian musicians play only their own ethnic music ...
Traoré first came to prominence in the early 1960s. He had taught himself to play guitar and developed a unique style that blended American blues music, Arab music, and pentatonic structures found in West Africa's Mande cultural region. He was a superstar in Mali and a symbol of the newly independent country (see History of Mali). His songs ...
Rokia Traoré (born 24. January 1974) is a Malian-born singer, songwriter and guitarist. [1] [2]She made six albums between 1998 and 2016. Bowmboï (2003) won the Critics Award category at the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music in 2004 [3] and Tchamantché (2008) won Victoires de la Musique World Music Album of the Year in 2009.
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