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Thiès, Senegal
Habib Koité is a Malian musician, singer, songwriter and griot based in Mali. His band, Bamada, was a supergroup of West African musicians, which included Kélétigui Diabaté on balafon.
Known for
- Feel Like Going Home — Self2003
- The Blues — Self2003
- Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Musical Guest1993
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Mali
- Active from
- 1958-01-27
Discography
- Acoustic Africa In Concert2011
- Brothers in Bamako2012
- Soô2014
- Kharifa2018
- Under the Supermoon2020
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- 80,366
- Total plays
- 633,934
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Malian guitarist Habib Koité is one of Africa's most popular and recognized musicians. Habib Koité was born in 1958 in Thiès, a Senegalese town situated on the railway line connecting Dakar to the river Niger, where his father worked on the construction of the tracks. Six months after his birth, the Koité family returned to the regional capital of west Mali, Kayes, and then to Bamako. Habib comes from a noble line of Khassonké griots, traditional troubadors who provide wit <a href="https://www
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Habib
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mali
- Place of birth
- Thiès
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- music of Africa
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- habibkoite.com
- Image
- Habib Koité.jpg
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- Habib Koité
- date of birth
- 1958-01-27
- start of work period
- 1995-00-00
- name in native language
- Habib Koité
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