salif keita
Career Highlights
One of the most prolific and well-known African artists of our time referred to as the “Golden Voice Of Africa”.
4 X Grammy nominated artist as well as countless other notable music awards throughout the span of his career.
A global career in music spanning over 50 years.
Founder of the Salif Keita Global Foundation dedicated to ending the worldwide discrimination, persecution and genocide against persons with albinism.
Bio
Rail Band of the Train Station Hotel, Ambassadeurs of the Motel of Bamako, Ambassadeurs Internationaux, and lately, Les AmbassadeursInternationaux: so many bands that enabled Salif Keita to ascend the steep steps to world fame. Not only do their names suggest a quest, a thirst for mobility and travel, they translate also his burning desire, as a person with albinism, the white man with the deep soul of Black Africa, to escape from a society that was denying him his full rights as a human being. Paradoxically, the names of these bands also express Salif Keita’s uncompromising pride of belonging to Mali and Manden, the legendary land of his birth, whose captivating Humanism he has been championing around the world for several decades now.
