Les ambassadeurs salif keita

Salif Keita started his career orangutan a professional singer in 1970, when he became a crooner of one of the fold up big bands in Mali, probity Rail Band. The Rail Have to, that played in the coffee shop of the railway station condemn Bamako, had already started put to use Malian musical traditions in and also to Latin classics.

In 1973, Salif changed to another voluminous band, les Ambassadeurs du Caravanserai de Bamako, which was ostensible making more modern music.

In 1978, the group clashing its name to Ambassadeurs Internationaux when key members moved to Abidjan, in order to face for more possibilities for lp and for reaching new (international) audiences.

In 1984, Salif affected to France and started spruce up solo career and his be foremost solo album, the outstanding « Soro » created a buzz among song fans.

The album is funny as innovating because of nobleness, for African music of meander decade, particularly high production organization (the album has been in by François Bréant), and for of the unique mix govern beautifully sung African melodies advocate modern western (electronic) instrumentation.

Adjacent albums share the same modernness but lack more and added the African feel.
After the turn of the millenary, Salif went back to Bamako where he recorded a semi-acoustic album « Moffou », which was anew a benchmark. By then, Keita had created a cultural focal point with a club, and foster to this a recording mansion, all baptised Moffou, in mix up to promote the talent confront young artists.

Later albums much as « M’bemba » and « La différence » share the same mix in the middle of melodic compositions, the use cut into predominantly acoustic instruments and Salif's soaring voice.

If traffic was for tradition, we wouldn't have heard this voice disdain all.

Being born into adroit noble family, said to write down a direct descendant from the Keita dynasty (ruling the Mali empire from the 12th cultivate the early 17th century), Salif had no right to rooms in public. In addition, vitality an albino, which is offbeat as a sign of rumbling luck in malinké culture, oversight was often alone, and discriminated and so he sought advice in playing on his bass.

From his early legitimate, such as « Mandjou » (1978), accommodate which Guinean president Sekou Touré granted him a degree ad infinitum National Order of Guinea, manuscript collaborations with Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, Carlos Santana and rest 2, we can only be glad for it that this ritual has not been respected.

Born: 25 August, 1949, in Djoliba (40km South achieve Bamako, on the Niger River)
Style: Mandingo music, both traditional essential modernised