Interview du guitariste Malien Habib Koite en amont de sa venue au Yelen Festival de Baulmes le samedi 13 septembre avec son nouveau projet Mandé Sila Et de l’acteur Anglo Egyptien Khalid Abdalla qui ...

The Central African nation of Mali is a crossroads of culture. And so is Habib Koite, the 43-year-old Malian guitarist who brings his band, Bamada, to Kutztown University on Tuesday. “It is hard to ...

Habib Koité of Mali was born one of 18 children into a long line of griots, traditional African storytellers, but his verse in the family history would take a modern turn. Like the guitar he plays, ...

Many shows at the Highline Ballroom are general admission, but the venue will change things up for certain shows by putting in tables and turning the hall into a large jazz club. They probably made ...

When millions of customers purchased Microsoft Windows Vista they found it came with a smattering of pre downloaded music. One of these artists was Habib Koité, an already internationally recognized ...

Malian superstar Habib Koité was born to parents from the Griot tradition of West African praise singing. As a Jeli, a type of Griots who stem from the former Malian Empire, Koité reportedly says he ...

Bonnie Raitt knows a thing or two about soulful guitarists, so when she declared that Mali’s Habib Koité deserves consideration alongside legendary ax masters, even music fans who pay little attention ...

With Colorado’s just-passed statewide smoking ban prompting threats of legal challenges, Habib Koité — headliner of Putumayo’s Acoustic Africa tour — may inadvertently add fuel to the debate with his ...

Internationally renowned musician Habib Koité has been named as the first-ever National Ambassador for UNICEF in Mali. “Habib Koité is distinguished by his undisputed commitment, his interest and his ...