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1) Prince Diabate Hello, how are you?

PD: Well, thank you!

2) Can you tell me about your projects?

PD: Well, now I'm promoting my album Djerelon. In United States, I work with soundtracks music movies composers like Kevin Keiner, and also with one of the greatest flamenco guitarists in Los Angeles, Adam Belmonte. Because, you know, that work we do is not limited !

3) Ah, for sure!

PD: And my mother was the first woman to play kora ! It was my father who taught her to play kora when I was not born yet.

4) And by he way, what about your projects ?

PD: Well, I'm also travelling often in Africa to make researches on my next album, because there are elders who know many things a and it's important to visit them and learn from them, because when they die, they're gone with everything they know. That is why I go every year in Africa. And I worked with Kanté Manfila, rest his soul. He was my teacher in Wassoulou pentatonic singing . He was also who producer of my last album (Djerelon) I mixed in Los Angeles.

5) I wanted to know in which matter is made your kora , if  I may demand you that ?

PD: Not at all. Your question is not a surprise for me because my kora is a little different than others. Actually, when my manager saw that particular form of calabash gourd in the Festival in Dan Diego (California), she asked me if I could make a kora from this heart-shaped gourd. I told her « yes ». And I took the gourd back in Guinea.
So in my kora, there are plenty of interbreeding because : the heart-shaped gourd is from California, I took it back in Guinea to make the neck, and the bridge was made in France!

6) Very well, thank you Prince Diabate! Hope to see you again!

PD: With pleasure! Goodbye.