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Kanté was a composer and multi-instrumentalist with a singing voice of heart-rending beauty and an individual style on the kora, the West African harp....
Musician Mory Kante, who helped win African music a global following, has died in the capital of his homeland Guinea at the age of 70, his agent said on.
Mory Kanté
Guinean musician (1950–2020)
Musical artist
Mory Kanté (29 March 1950 – 22 May 2020) was a Guineanvocalist and player of the kora harp. He was best known internationally for his 1987 hit song "Yé ké yé ké", which reached number-one in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and Spain.
The album it came from, Akwaba Beach, was the best-selling African record of its time.[5]
Early life
Kanté was born in Albadaria, French Guinea (a part of French West Africa at the time) on 29 March 1950.
His father was El Hadj Djeli Fodé Kanté and his mother, Fatouma Kamissoko, was a singer.[6] They were one of Guinea's best known families of griot (hereditary) musicians.[7] He was of mixed Malian and Guinean descent.[6] After being brought up in the Mandinka griot tradition in Guinea, he was sent to Mali at the age of seven years – where he learned to play the kora, as well as important voice traditions, some of which are
