Ramata Diakité

let's close this small wassulu -pop presentation with beloved ,ever missed
 and always remembered   Ramatu 

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Djénéba Diakité - Gnogondeme

A  Wassoulou songbird from the 90's, Djénéba Diakité is hailing from the region of Sikasso.Her village Kanibougoulaye is close to the borders with  Côte d'Ivoire. She spent her childhood between  Wassoulou and Bamako and after school she began studying theater in Koutiala.

After her courses she became interested in music despite the will of her parents, who over time  accepted her decision  by attributing it to fate. Thus Djénéba was driven on the road to music by her husband  Madou Bah Traore.Together they  formed their group "Farafina Lolo' with the highly talented Madou Bah  as the guitarist and arranger . Equipped with a beautiful voice Djénéba was soon on the national level.
Djénéba  was one of the Malian music stars who turned out in the early 90s with the release of her first cassette "dougou dassiri ",a big success in Mali and  soon with Farafina Lolo they performed  throughout Mali and the whole sub-region.

Djénéba Diakité became known in  Abidjan  appealing to the Malian expatriate community  there but also in Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin where was known as a reference wassoulou star from Mali.European tours followed closely ..

A second cassette named Liberia  confirmed her class,but the  album was widely pirated .Still Djénéba was not discouraged and she recorded a third album that was  also  pirated before its official release....

wassoulou life soundtrack

Gnogondeme


with

vocals-Djénéba Diakité

guitars-Madou Bah Traoré
bass:Dramane Traoré

kamélé n'goni-Benogo

djembé-Drissa Bagayogo

backing vocals-Sata Sidibé,Fanta Doumbia

thanks to ngoni for the video

Nabintou Diakité

...was ( back in 98 )

la  nouvelle revelation de Wassoulou

with (Oumou's band)

Kassim Sidibé kamalengoni

Adama Dramé & Sekou Bah guitars

Abdouleye Fofana flute 

Basidi Keita djembe
Djeneba Seck, Alima Toure and cousin Oumou Sangare on chorus 

Kambele N'goni de Ganadougou

kambele n'goni (known too as  kamale n'goni )  

and the voice of  Daouda 'Flani' Sangaré  from the Ganadougou district 

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*****

Djeneba Sidibé

But it’s the Wasulu musicians who are artistes. Everyone can sing in Wasulu. We don’t have 
jeliw here; everyone sings. They brought artistry to music. Otherwise, before us, all there was 
were jeliw . . . But the Wasulu changed that. We said, “You don’t need to be a jeli to sing.” 
It’s not true. Now people have started to see the difference. They said, “Hey, we can sing for 
fun, too.” It serves something for us. It erases nostalgia. You have fun, you wash dishes, or 
the laundry – you have fun with singing. It comes like that [naturally, without effort]. You 
emit warmth or anguish that you have. Sometimes you sing and you cry, you sing alone and 
you cry. You just express yourself, your anguish, you know?

Samba Diallo 


some of the sweetest sounds on earth naturally come from wassoulou land
like the next  3 from (new ? ) songbird  Djeneba Sidibé

 songs

thanks ngoni




even more than the performance I  love audience's smiling  participation
:)

Mamou Sidibé

la voix d’or du Ganadougou

Mari