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The Jimi Hendrix of the kora, pure Soviet guitar and North African funk
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GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
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N’FALY KOUYATE, the vocalist, kora and balafon player with the Afro-Celt Sound System, hails from Guinea in West Africa.
Dubbed the “Jimi Hendrix Of The Kora,” after moving to Belgium in 1994 he joined the Afro-Celts singing and playing the kora in a band that mixed electronic music with traditional Gaelic and West African music attracting Robert Plant and Peter Gabriel to take the stage with them.
In February this year N’Faly did a solo UK tour to promote his single Premier Pas and to prepare for the release for the release of his new solo set Re-Generation Part One.
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