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Aquarelle of Christiane Javaux - Jeune malienne 2 d'après une photo de Lydia Vall de Perez |
Others writings : Fantagué - Fanta Gue(ye) |
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Ways of playing and tunings : Sauta or Tomora  |
This song was composed in the 1960s in honor of a very beautiful woman named Fanta Djabi, sometimes nicknamed Fanta the White (Fantagué).
Few korafoláluA korafolá is kora player in mandinka (who is able to make the kora talk) - korafolálu, plural. recorded this very popular song, and based upon a cheerful melody.
Note that in the performance of Jali Nyama Susso
Jali Nyama Suso was a very great korafolá who has been world wide famous in the 1970s... Read more., the theme played is almost the same as SalimunNear 1952, there was in Kankan a man called Salimoun who was a notorious drunken... Read more., a theme close itself NanfoulenThis song is popular and is coming from Guinea ; it is rather recent, dating back from the 2nd world war.... Read more about. or CheriCheri (Lil Darling) is not, properly talking, a "traditional" or epic song ; but it was rather a popular folksong "in the mood" in Guinea near the 1960s... Read more., from which it had been created.
Famous performers of Fanta :
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