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	African Music Encyclopedia: Salif Keita
		Salif Keita, born in 1949 in Djoliba, is sometimes called the Golden Voice of Africa.
		He is a direct descendent of Sundiata Keita, the Mandinka warrior king who founded the Malian empire in the 13th century.
		Keita's music blends together the traditional griot music of his Malian childhood with other West African influences from Guinea, the Ivory Coast, and Senegal, along with influences from Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, and an unmistakably overall Islamic sound.
	www.africanmusic.org /artists/salif.html (379 words)

	Salif Keita 2006
		In Keita's experience, he was initially shunned and ostracized by his family and community alike but chose to sing out against his personal situation with his golden voice.
		Keita has since become one of the more renowned musicians from the African continent with a broad international audience (as was evident by the packed auditorium at The Apollo Theater.
		For the encore Salif Keita performed the prerequisite anthem "Mandjou," his hit from 1978 which pays homage to the Mandingan people and was dedicated to Guinéan President Sékou Touré, historically a major benefactor of West African music.
	www.africasounds.com /salif_keita_2006.htm (755 words)

	Keita, Salif
		Salif Keita - A master of West African rhythms and credited as one of the founders of the Afro-pop genre, Keita is world renowned for his unforgettable live performances, soaring vocals and his emotionally-fueled songs.
		Born in Mali, West Africa in 1949, Salif Keita comes from a noble family, and is a descendant of Sunjata Keita, who founded the Mali Empire in 1240.
		Keita was the third of thirteen children born to Sina Keita, a landowner in the village of Djoliba, where he grew up, near Mali’s capital, Bamako.
	www.wrasserecords.com /artists/info/7.html (580 words)

	Salif Keita - Artist Detail Information
		Salif Keita's career as a musician will always be colored by the fact that he is a member of the Royal Family.
		That a man from The Royal Family began as a musician in Mali in the 1960s, caused a storm of protest and Salif Keita was expelled from school.
		Today, Salif Keita is one of world music's most central and influential artists; and each and every one of his albums is greeted with great expectations.
	www.eyefortalent.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/artist.detail/artist_id/98 (460 words)

	Salif Keita: Blonde Ambition by Richard Byrne - The Globalist > > Global Music
		When one considers Salif Keita's background, the connections between music and the politics of Mali — one of the poorest countries in the world — are quite clear.
		Yet, Salif Keita's message is not meant to put anyone to sleep, but rather to wake his listeners (and all Africans, especially) to their own positive nature.
		It's a fight that Salif Keita, the descendent of a king who was cast down and the raised himself up, has already won.
	www.theglobalist.com /DBWeb/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=2737 (1066 words)

	Salif Keita (The Leopard Man's African Music Guide)
		Salif Keita's career as a musician will always be coloured by the fact that he is a member of the Royal Family.
		Today, Salif Keita is one of world music's most central and influential artists; and each and every one of his albums is greeted with great expectations.
		Salif Keita has ended up in a strange position, in that everything he has done since will be measured against this album.
	www.leopardmannen.no /k/keita.salif.asp?lang=gb (1231 words)

	Salif Keita Downloads :: calabashmusic.com
		Salif Keita sang with the legendary, Latin-tinged Rail Band of Bamako in the early '70s before starting his own more fusion-oriented group, Les Ambassadeurs which also featured brilliant Guinean guitarist Kante Manfila.
		Keita moved to Paris in 1984, and there he recorded Soro, a dazzlingly beautiful realization of his brooding, modern take on Malian tradition.
		Keita sings with belting, no-holds-barred passion that evokes blues shouters and randb screamers.
	salifkeita.calabashmusic.com (453 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Salif Keita tickets, concerts and tour dates
		Salif Keita gave up a lot to pursue his dreams of a career in music.
		Keita's dreams, however, were too strong to be shattered.
		Keita continued his recording career with several releases for Mango throughout the '90s, including the Mansa of Mali anthology, before moving to Blue Note for Papa in 1999 and then Decca, where he debuted with Moffou in 2002.
	www.ticketmaster.com /artist/734237?brand=none (728 words)

	African Music Encyclopedia: Salif Keita (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Salif Keita, born in 1949 in Djoliba, is sometimes called the Golden Voice of Africa.
		He is a direct descendent of Sundiata Keita, the Mandinka warrior king who founded the Malian empire in the 13th century.
		Keita's music blends together the traditional griot music of his Malian childhood with other West African influences from Guinea, the Ivory Coast, and Senegal, along with influences from Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, and an unmistakably overall Islamic sound.
	africanmusic.org /artists/salif.html (379 words)

	Salif Keita - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Salif Keita - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Keita, Salif, born in 1949, Malian singer and songwriter, whose combining of traditional rhythms and vocals with electronic instruments made him...
		The tradition of professional griots in the savanna region of West Africa is carried on by musicians such as Youssou N’Dour of Senegal and Salif...
	encarta.msn.com /Salif_Keita.html (95 words)

	Salif Keita Biography
		Salif Keita was born an albino - a sign of bad luck and was shunned and ostracised by his family and community alike.
		By 1977, Salif Keita composed Mandjou, a track which is seen to be a key signature tune of his.
		Due to increasing political unrest, Salif Keita left Mali in the mid-'70s for the Ivory Coast, the other members of the band followed suit and they changed the name of the band to Les Ambassadeurs Internationales.
	www.panafricanallstars.com /biography/salifkeita.asp (296 words)

	Womad - World of Music Arts and Dance
		Internationally recognised afro-pop singer-songwriter Salif Keita is unique not only because of his reputation as the "Golden Voice of Africa", but because he is an albino and a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita.
		Salif and Manfila then went to Washington, where they produced Primpin, a song whose words were as scandalous ('alcohol' and 'drugs' were in the lyrics!) as the sound was revolutionary.
		Salif Keita is an artist who allows his roots to speak in revisiting the works of his youth, in funk, soul and rock, with wisdom and mastery.
	www.womad.co.nz /salif-keita.htm (672 words)

	MULTI-ARTICLE-SUB
		Salifou Keita is born August 25 1949, in Djoliba, a town in the south of Mali near the heartland of the old empire.
		Salif isn’t the first choice: “I went to a competition to become the lead singer of the Rail Band, and there were four candidates.
		Keita is filmed extensively in Mali, in his home village, the fields in which he learned to sing, and consorting with griots.
	www.exclaim.ca /index.asp?layid=22&csid1=5357 (3035 words)

	Salíf Keita 'M'Bemba' album - MusicRemedy
		As an albino, Keita once was disowned by his own father; as a musician, he was rejected by the aristocracy of his own caste; and as a man with ambition, he had no choice but to leave a country that offered no professional perspectives.
		Keita came from a noble family with a farming tradition, and music was exclusively for the caste of the griots.
		The Keita trademark sound and style were now established: Keyboards, guitars and saxophones mingled with jazz, rock, funk and Afro-beat, along with traditional strings and percussion, to reshape the contours of ancestral rhythms and chants.
	www.musicremedy.com /s/Salif_Keita/album/MBemba-3001.html (1301 words)

	Keita Salif - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Keita Salif - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Keita, Salif (1949-), Malian singer and songwriter, popularly known as “the golden voice of Mali”, whose combination of traditional rhythms and...
		The tradition of professional griots in the savannah region of West Africa is carried on by musicians such as Youssou N'dour of Senegal and Salif...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Keita_Salif.html (101 words)

	Salif Keita (by L. Proyect)
		Salif Keita is one of a handful of African musicians who has won acceptance by Western mass audiences.
		Keita hails from Bamako, Mali's capital city, which is as important to the great flowering of African music over the past several decades as New Orleans or Chicago were to American Jazz in the early years.
		Keita sings in a medium tempo, with a penetrating high tenor voice rooted in the Islamic style of the muzzeins, who call people to prayer each morning.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/keita.htm (1107 words)

	Salif Keita: National Geographic World Music (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Salif Keita sang with the legendary, Latin-tinged Rail Band of Bamako in the early '70s before starting his own more fusion-oriented group, Les Ambassadeurs which also featured brilliant Guinean guitarist Kante Manfila.
		Keita moved to Paris in 1984, and there he recorded Soro, a dazzlingly beautiful realization of his brooding, modern take on Malian tradition.
		Keita's 1999 release, Papa, was co-produced by Vernon Reid and moved more aggressively in the direction of rock music than any of the singer's previous works.
	worldmusic.nationalgeographic.com /worldmusic/view/page.basic/artist/content.artist/salif_keita (335 words)

	George Graham Reviews Salif Keita
		But Salif Keita was born an albino in a land where those with the condition were ostracized and even sacrificed in an earlier day.
		Rejected by his father, Keita was turned onto the streets as a teenager, where he resorted to music and his family's tradition of the griot or storyteller to make a living.
		Keita's distinctive vocals may not be to the immediate liking of people who spend their time listening to the likes of Michael Bolton, but his style is instantly recognizable and conveys a range of emotions that transcends the language barrier, and can often be striking in beauty.
	georgegraham.com /keita.html (1190 words)

	World Music Central - Your connection to World Music
		Salif Keita was the third of thirteen children born to Sina Keita, a landowner in the village of Djoliba, where he grew up, near Mali’s capital, Bamako.
		The impressive Mansa of Mali retrospective was released in 1993 to coincide with Salif Keita’s tours of the United States, and Southern Africa.
		On his 2002 album, Moffou, Salif Keita is joined by excellent musicians, including Cape Verdian diva Cesaria Evora on the track Yamore, guitar-hero Djelly Moussa Kouyaté from Guinea, and the inescapable Kanté Manfila (acoustic guitar), both of them long-time companions of Salif.
	www.worldmusiccentral.org /artists/artist_page.php?id=1105 (1370 words)

	MySpace.com - Salif Keita - Bamako - Afro-beat - www.myspace.com/salifkeitamusic
		Salif Keita's voice is one other mortals can only aspire to.
		Given Salif Keita's incredible talent, it was inevitable that one day music would take him back to his homeland, despite the hardships he once faced there.
		As an albino, Keita once was disowned by his own father; as a musician, he was rejected by the aristocracy of his own caste; and as a man with ambition, he had no choice but to leave a country that offered no professional perspectives.
	www.myspace.com /salifkeitamusic (614 words)

	:: Music on Tnt ::
		Keita Salif - Salif Keita - Parte 4 - Le grandi collaborazioni
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	www.music-on-tnt.com /monografie/monografie.php (207 words)

	NPR : Salif Keita Returns to Mali's Traditional Sounds
		Salif Keita was one of the first Malian singers to reach an international audience.
		News & Notes, August 16, 2006 · Salif Keita has been called the "golden voice of Mali" and a pioneer of the music called Afro-pop.
		In addition to his musical career, Keita has begun a foundation dedicated to albinos and is trying to raise money for a school and clinic in Mali for people with the condition.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=5653017 (309 words)

	Salif Keita - Songs und Alben by Jamba Music
		Salif Keita Cunnie Williams Solveig Martin Martin Solveig
		In der Musik sieht Salif Keita den einzigen Ausweg aus diesem Unheil.
		Der Durchbruch gelingt 1978 mit dem Album "Mandjou" und ermÃ¶glicht Keita und Manfila einen dreimonatigen Aufenthalt in New York, um dort die Alben "Primpin" und "Toukan" aufzunehmen, die mÃ¼helos an den Erfolg von "Mandjou" anknÃ¼pfen.Dennoch steht Salif Keita der Sinn mehr nach Europa, genauer gesagt nach Paris.
	www.jamba.de /jcw/goto/music/artist/artistid-30283 (683 words)

	iClassics
		With a career spanning over 35 years, Salif Keita is regarded as one of world music’s most influential artists and has recorded numerous albums with some of the finest international musicians in jazz, rock and pop.
		Keita's new CD, M’Bemba, meaning "grandfather" in the Bambara language, celebrates Keita’s definitive return to his musical Malian roots and culture.
		Credited as one of the founders of the Afro-pop genre, the West African singer is known the world over for his unforgettable live performances, soaring vocals and his emotionally-fuelled songs.
	www.iclassics.com /micrositeHome?contentId=19 (244 words)

	Salif Keita: GlobalVillageIdiot
		Mali's Salif Keita, celebrated as one of the world's great singers, has managed it on his shimmering new acoustic album, Moffou, a decided change from the more Westernized efforts of recent years.
		But a second strike came with Keita being born albino, a curse in Africa.
		It was a solo artist, though, that Keita found international fame, and over the last 15 years and five albums he's become known as the Golden Voice of Africa, winning acclaim around the globe for his keening, glorious singing.
	www.globalvillageidiot.net /SalifKeita.html (545 words)

	RFI Musique - - Salif Keïta
		Salif Keïta wraps up an extensive tour (including dates in the United States) with a concert on August 9th atthe world music festival in Crozon, France (Festival du bout du monde).
		Salif Keita : I like being free, I want to be able to do everything, putting things in comparments doesn't interest me. When I mix music from home with that from the Occident, it's like putting myself to the test each time.
		For example, to say that the nobility doesn't have the right to sing (Salif Keita is a descendant of Sundjata Keita, the founder of the Mandingue empire in 1240.
	www.rfi.fr /musiqueen/articles/060/article_6391.asp (1193 words)

	Salif Keita \| PRI's The World
		Salif Keita will be featuring songs at the Apollo from his new recording "M'bemba." The concert is part of a tour in support of Keita's new album.
		Salif Keita says he believes that has brought him closer to the fl American experience of rejection.
		Salif Keita believes the Apollo is as important, and that UNESCO ought to protect the the theater in the same way.
	theworld.org /?q=node/2310 (861 words)

	Salif Keita arrives onstage looking more like a spiritual supplicant than a descendant of ...
		Born an albino in a fl society, he might easily, in the not too distant past, have faced death on the sacrificial stones that still stand near the small village where he was born.
		Keita grew up during the musical ferment of the '60s and '70s, and found himself drawn to the new hybrid forms, which offered freedom from strictures and stereotypes—the kind he knew all too well straddling worlds as a racial outcast.
		But the distinctive sound of Keita's voice, and the impassioned feelings he was capable of communicating, made the calling hard to ignore.
	www.thisismyhole.homestead.com /files/salif_keita.htm (599 words)

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