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Kandia Kouyate is a very famous singer women coming from Mali, world wide famous ; because of the depth of her talent
and her powerful harsh voice, she has been nicknamed « the Dangerous Jèlímusoa jèlí (plural, jèlílu, jèlímusow, feminine) is a bard, loremaster, and
praise-singer in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as he want and hear it... Read more. » and earned the greatest
prestigious title of ngara. « Kouyaté's dense, emotional, hypnotic manner of singing and her lyrical talents have earned huge acclaim in Mali, though she remained relatively little
known outside Africa, due to extremely limited availability of her recordings. Her home town of Kita is known for love songs,
which form a large part of Kouyaté's repertoire » (Wikipedia).
 If you check out to her last 2 albums, you may notice how great is her talent ; as far as she performs not only Manding classics - as it
should be required according to the strict tradition and her prestigious name - she innovates with own compositions mixed in a very modern style, but in the other hand she does not omit the past and
history of her people as she sings the famous song : «Mandekalou » (People of Mande) so famous that it has been took as a eponymic name for a recent compilation and a great project. 
She is accompagnied by the greatest and world wide famous Malian musicians such as Ousmane Kouyate (guitar), Moriba Koïta Moriba Koita is a very great n'konifála, native of Kita (Mali) - the cradle of jelilu great dynasties, very famous in his country and all
around the world... Read more. (ngoni The n'koni is a melodic instrument hailing from the Fulani, used since antiquity by that ethnic group... Read more.) and
on one track (Folilalou) by the great singer Sekouba
Bambino Diabate, Kandia Kouyate, offers us listening not only the ancient voices of masters and traditionists jèlílujèlílu (plural, jèlílu) are bards, loremasters, and praise-singers in the Manding areas whose functions are story-telling, speaking about lineages, singing and playing music as they want and hear it. from Kita - « Kita Kan » in Kandia Kouyate's native Maninka language meaning « the voice of Kita » - , but also a captivating great voice of the Manding in this
beginning of XXI century.
At the end of the 2015, Kandia is back releasing a new great album : Renascence.
« This new album was made only
because of Sylla, says Kandia. “I had been ill and Sylla was gravely ill, but he was always there [in the studio], encouraging me. He asked me to
sing everything I knew, everything that was in my head. I said 'I know nothing. I’ve forgotten everything.' But he insisted. 'Tomorrow it will come back,' he said.”
And it did. Her voice has an authority that arises from a very deep well of wisdom and spirit. It is the voice of a true Ngara. Renascence is Kandia’s
resounding declaration of personal and artistic rebirth. »
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