Sidiki Diabaté is a

Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east b ...

an kora player, singer, and music producer born in 1992 in

Bamako Bamako is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569. It is located on the Niger River, near the rapids that divide the upper and middle Niger valleys in the southwestern part of the country. Bamak ...

. He is the son of kora player

Toumani Diabaté Toumani Diabaté ( ; 10 August 1965 – 19 July 2024) was a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he was involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styl ...

and grandson of his namesake, Sidiki Diabaté. Diabaté belongs to the 77th generation of musicians in a long family tradition of

griot A griot (; ; Manding languages, Manding: or (in N'Ko script, N'Ko: , or in French spelling); also spelt Djali; or / ; ) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet, and/or musician. Griots are masters of communicatin ...

s, his family being primarily kora players. His father's cousin Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora player to come from a griot family. His uncle

Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté (born September 23, 1982) is a prominent Mandé '' kora'' player and jeli from Bamako, Mali. He is the 71st generation of ''kora'' players in his family and a son to Sidiki Diabaté. Biography Diabaté, widely known as ...

is also a kora player. Diabaté was arrested on 24 September 2020 on the count of assault of an ex-girlfriend.

Discography

* ''Toumani & Sidiki'', with

(2014) * ''Diabateba Music, Vol. 1'' (2016) * ''Lamomali'', with -M- (2017) * ''Béni'' (2019)

References

1992 births Malian Kora players Living people 21st-century Malian people Bambara-language singers Griots Musicians from Bamako {{Africa-musician-stub