Bassekou Kouyate

Bassekou Kouyate

  • Origin:flag of ML
  • ngoni
  • malian blues
  • world
  • desert blues
  • afropop
  • mande pop

Bassekou Kouyaté (born 1966) is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba. He was born into the Kouyate family in Garana, Barouéli Cercle, 60 kilometres from Ségou, in 1966. At the age of 12, he started playing the ngoni. In the late 1980s he moved to the capital, Bamako.Kouyaté's debut album, Segu Blue, was released internationally in 2007 by Outhere Records and distributed in the U.K. by Proper Music Distribution. The album was produced by Lucy Durán. He has also appeared on a numbe


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