Amadou & Mariam
Amadou and Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Mariam Doumbia (vocals, born April 15, 1958 in Bamako ) and Amadou Bagayoko (guitar, vocals, born October 24, 1954 in Bamako ).
The couple, known as the blind couple from Mali, has gathered together the mid-1970s at the Institute for the Young Blind.
Band History
Between 1974 and 1980, Amadou played with Ambassadeurs du Motel. In 1980 he married Mariam. From then on, the two played music together and launched a tour in 1985 in Burkina Faso. Then they moved to the Ivory Coast and took on numerous cassettes, which gave them a high level of awareness throughout West Africa.
The album Sou Ni Tile sold very well in France and made sure that Amadou and Mariam could occur on various world music festivals around the world. 2004 Manu Chao produced along with them Dimanche à Bamako Album whose single from Senegal Fast Food was quite well known.
2006, the two took together with Herbert Grönemeyer time to get things moving ( Celebrate the Day ), the official song for the FIFA World Cup 2006, on.
Your 2008 released album "Welcome to Mali " was produced by British musician Damon Albarn of Blur and nominated for a Grammy in the category World Music 2009.
On 10 June 2010 they performed at the opening concert for the soccer World Cup in Johannesburg.
Music style
In her music that mixes traditional Mali sound with rock guitars, violin, trumpet, the Arab longitudinal flute Ney, Trombone, Dogon percussion and occasionally the Indian tabla and the Indian string instrument sarangi. Your mix is often referred to as Afro - Blues.
Awards
- 2004: Tamani for the best video clip: " Dimanche à Bamako "
- 2004: Tamani for the best African duo
- 2009: nominated for a Grammy in the category World Music
Discography
- Sou Ni Tile (1998)
- Se Te Djon Ye (1999)
- Tje Ni Mousso (2000)
- Wati (2003)
- Dimanche à Bamako ( 2005)
- Je pense à toi: Best of (2005)
- Welcome to Mali (LP, 2008)
- Sabali (Single, 2008)
- Folila (LP, 2012)