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 Lamine Cissokho was brought up in Casamance- a region well-known for having a rich culture of musical traditions in southern Senegal.
Lamine's father is the professional korafolá A korafolá is a kora player in mandinka (who is able to make the kora talk) - korafolálu, plural. Sana Cissokho and his mother the singer Fatoumata Drame from Casamance. Lamine and his siblings have been singing and playing kora and other traditional west-african instruments with their father since their childhood.
 Early, the kora became his main instrument. Since the age of 10, Lamine has been playing in a lot of different groups and today he is well-known as korafolá A korafolá is a kora player in mandinka (who is able to make the kora talk) - korafolálu, plural. , now living in Falun, Sweden since 2001. In Sweden he has been playing with musicians as Ale Möller Band, Maria Jonsson (viola d'amore), Ian Carr - with two of them he created the fusion band «Namo », Anders Nygårds, Baba Blues, and several other folk musicians. He has been playing at Urkultfestivalen several times and he has been working as a musician at Dalateatern.
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Lamine Cissokho, Pakao © 2011 Discover Records |
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Lamine Cissokho, Sama Tilo © 2015 Discover Records |
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