Toumani Diabaté, a Malian virtuoso of a 21-string instrument known as the kora, who brought a rich West African musical legacy to audiences around the world with genre-mixing collaborations ...

By Giovanni Russonello Toumani Diabaté, a virtuoso of the kora, a 21-stringed West African instrument, which he often put into dialogue with other musical traditions from around the globe ...

When Toumani was born in Bamako in 1965, neither his surname Diabaté or his instrument, the kora, an iconic ... controlled part of west Africa. As a scholar of the music of the Mande people ...

A famed Malian musician took to social media on Wednesday to mourn the loss of a priceless instrument he ... caused any damage. The kora is a 21-string harp of African origin, according to ...

Toumani Diabaté, Malian master of the traditional, 21-stringed West African instrument the kora, has died ... including spiritual and meditative music—but Diabaté also adored the cross ...

Toumani Diabaté will be remembered around the world for his mastery of the kora, the 21-string musical instrument beloved across West Africa. Malians remember him in many more ways: the ...

Diabate, a renowned master of the kora—a traditional West African stringed instrument—died at a private ... to seamlessly blend traditional Malian music with contemporary influences earned ...

Malian music star Toumani Diabate passed away ... was considered a virtuoso of African stringed instrument the kora – a "king of kora" in Mali and beyond. His countrywoman Oumou Sangare ...

The world has lost a significant musical ambassador for the ... neither his surname Diabaté or his instrument, the kora, an iconic 21-stringed African harp, were familiar to anyone outside ...

His son Sidiki Jr's star would be on the rise. Read more: Kora: in search of the origins of west Africa's famed stringed musical instrument Kora players like the Diabatés have emerged from a ...