Artist:Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
Song: Musow Fanga
Album:Ba Power
Bassekou Kouyate is a Malian musician and leading proponent of the ngoni which is similar to the lute. He frequently performs with his singer wife Amy Sacko and they released an album last year. He was born Aug. 7, 1966 in Garana, Mali. His father also played the ngoni and taught all his sons to play it. His mother was a singer. Kouyate was one of thirteen children. His father was not a professional musician because he thought God would punish him. But as a teen, Kouyate was playing at local parties and thought he could be a musician. After his father died, Kouyate moved to Segu to join guitarist Cheikh Oumar Diabate's band featuring his singer wife Nainy. That's also where he met Amy Sacko. That's where he learned to be a musician. He toured with Diabate in the 80s until he joined Toumani Diabate's Symmetric Orchestra in the late 80s. Habib Koite was lead singer. Kouyate married Amy Sacko in 1990 and started his own band in 1995. The formation of the band Ngoni Ba came out of discussions with producer Lucy Duran who had produced Diabate's band. She got him a record deal with the German label Outhere Records. After several albums, he switched to the German label Glitterbeat for the 2015 album Ba Power featuring the song Musow Fanga. The album was produced by The Walkabouts lead singer and guitarist Chris Eckman who also plays guitar on the record. He records for Glitterbeat. This album is available as a budget CD. After one more album, Kouyate disbanded Ngoni Ba in 2019. Last year Kouyate and Amy released the album Djudjon on the Danish label One World Records. He wrote and produced it himself at home in Mali. The two continue to tour the world and are recommended to Malian music fans. Here's the video for Musow Fanga byBassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba.
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