Lobi Traoré (1961 – 1 June 2010
) was a
Mali
Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mal ...
an musician. He was born in the village of Bakaridianna, on the
Niger River
The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through ...
close to
Ségou
Ségou (; bm, ߛߋߓߎ, italic=no, ) is a town and an urban commune in south-central Mali that lies northeast of Bamako on the right bank of the River Niger. The town is the capital of the Ségou Cercle and the Ségou Region. With 130,690 ...
and died in Bamako. His singing has been described in ''
The Economist
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'' as "flat, strangely penetrating tone, somewhere between rap and blues".
His breakthrough album, ''Bamako'', produced by
Ali Farka Touré, was released in 1994. It was voted one of the best rock albums of the year by ''
Libération'' and one of the best world music albums by ''
Le Monde
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''.
Discography
* ''Bambara Blues'' (1992)
* ''Bamako'' (1994)
* ''Ségou'' (1996)
* ''Duga'' (1999)
* ''Mali Blue'' (2004)
* ''The Lobi Traoré Group'' (2005)
* ''Barra Coura'' (2005)
* ''Bwati Kono'' (2010)
* ''Rainy Season Blues'' (2010)
* ''Bamako Nights: Live at Bar Bozo 1995'' (2013)
References
* "Notes from the Niger", (Aug. 25, 2005), ''The Economist'' magazine.
External links
*
mondomix.com(in French)
1961 births
2010 deaths
Musicians from Bamako
People from Ségou Region
Glitterhouse Records artists
21st-century Malian people
Bambara-language singers
World Circuit (record label) artists
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