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| Most casual fans of Malian music will know of him only through his recent guest appearances on Taj Mahal's 1999 album Kulanjan, on which The Blues met their Malian counterparts and got on famously.
Or maybe you heard his clear unaffected tenor on the Songhai 2 album he recorded in 1994 with Toumani Diabat�. Kasse mady diabate biographyBut Kasse Mady's story goes back to the early seventies, when he began singing with Super Mande � one of many bands benefitting from the same kind of government patronage that had facilitated such a smooth ride to fame for Bembeya Jazz in neighbouring Guinea a few years earlier. After helping them to win the 1973 Biennale festival, he was head hunted by Las Maravillas de Mali, a group which had just returned from eight years in Cuba. Las Maravillas had changed their name to National Badema du Mali in around 1976, but by the mid eighties, their big band style was no longer in vogue. Kasse Made joined the growing ranks of West African musicians emigrating to try their luck in |