African Music Legend Mory Kante Dies At 70
This file photo, taken on August 15, 2008, shows music veteran Mory Kante playing the Kora while performing with the ‘Yeke Yeke Anniversary Tour’ band on the the ‘world stage’ on the Hajogyar Island of Budapest, the Hungarian capital. Attila KISBENEDEK / AFPGuinean singer Mory Kante, who helped introduce African music to a world audience in the 1980s, died on Friday in the capital Conakry, his son Balla Kante told AFP.
“He suffered from chronic illnesses and often travelled to France for treatment, but that was no longer possible with the coronavirus,” Balla Kante said. And along with Mali’s star singer Salif Keita, his songs were among the first from West Africa to achieve widespread success elsewhere of the world.Kante spent much of his youth in Mali, which neighbours his native Guinea, where in the early 1970s he joined the renowned Rail Band in which Keita was also a singer.
The album on which the song was included, “Akwaba Beach,” later went on to become one of the best-selling records in sub-Saharan history.
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