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Jali Musa Jawara

Jali Musa Jawara has been played on NTS in shows including The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones, featured first on 23 March 2015. Songs played include Yekeke and Fote Mogoban.

Guinean singer and composer Djeli Mousa Diawara is foremost among world players of the Kora, the African harp-lute of the Manding peoples of the Senegambia. Born in Guinea in 1961 into a family whose musical roots span generations, his father was a famous player of the balafon (Africa's wooden cousin to the xylophone), and his mother sang. He joined his family as a member of the djeli (or jali) caste - the honored…

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Yekeke
Jali Musa Jawara
Hannibal Records, Carthage Records1990
Yekeke
Jali Musa JawaraHannibal Records, Carthage Records1990
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Fote Mogoban
Jali Musa Jawara
Hannibal Records, Carthage Records1990
Fote Mogoban
Jali Musa JawaraHannibal Records, Carthage Records1990
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