Tuesday's Toon #6

Bassekou Kouyaté (left) was born in 1966 in Garana and is a musician from Mali. His band is known as Ngoni ba. At the age of 12 he started playing the Ngoni. In the late 80's he moved to the capital Bamako. Kouyaté's album Segu Blue was released internationally in 2007 by Out Here Records and distributed in the U.K. by Proper Music Distribution.
In 2008 - BBC3 Awards for World Music - Album of the Year in it's catagory was "Segu Blue". Bassekou Kouyate was also voted African Artist of the Year.

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