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Mama Sissoko
12+ albums
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Ancient guitar solo player of the Super Biton of Segou, Mama Sissoko managed to conserve the secrets of Malian guitar whether in traditional songs inherited from the griots or in original compositions. His limpid instrumental play accompanies wonderfully his soulful voice. He’s from those who discourage the certainties sowers and the stickers’ putters. Only one irrefutable premise: Mama Sissoko is one of the artists whose musical pulsation confirms the feverous tempo of an agitated continent. He’s a great of Africa. His talent of singer, of guitar player and of author-composer are as huge as his discography is reduced. He’s not from the people who lay an album every five minutes. He’s from those who think about it during months, even during years. Only two tapes and one CD of him are available since 91! We can say that the second album "Soleil de Minuit" (midnight sun) has been awaited; it coincided with the eve of year 2000. An acoustic jewel as we can hear it in "son cubano" of Compay Segundo or the Troubadours of Santiago, an urbanity master-piece, in which the guitar is the companion of the reveller mood of the African cities. But before the album, Mama Sissoko had a long and sinuous route. Let’s then begin by the roots: Mama was born (French) in Nioro of the Sahel in 1949. Eleven years later, he becomes a Malian citizen because of the decolonisation. He started learning music at a young age with his father, a famous musician and griot that was an ace of the N’goni. Ma
