Amadou and Mariam, as seen on the cover of their album "Dimanche A Bamako".

Amadou and Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born in Mali's capital Bamako 15 April 1958) and Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (born in Bamako 24 October 1954). The pair, known as "the blind couple from Mali" met at Mali's Institute for the Young Blind, and found they shared an interest in music. Image File history File links Amadou_Et_Mariam_-_Dimanche_A_Bamako. ... Image File history File links Amadou_Et_Mariam_-_Dimanche_A_Bamako. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Music Look up Music in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikisource, as part of the 1911 Encyclopedia Wikiproject, has original text related to this article: Music Meta has a page about this at: Music markup MusicNovatory: the science of music encyclopedia The... Bamako, population about 1 500,000 (2004), is the capital of Mali. ... April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining. ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Style

The duo produces music that mixes traditional Mali sound with rock guitars, Syrian violins, Cuban trumpets, Egyptian ney, Columbian trombones, Indian tablas and Dogon percussion. All these elements put together have been referred to as "Afro-blues". Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Violin The violin is a stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart. ... The trumpet is the highest brass instrument in register, above the horn, trombone, euphonium, and tuba. ... Woman playing the ney in a painting from the Hasht-Behesht Palace in Isfahan Iran, 1669 The ney (also nai, nye, nay) is an end-blown flute that figures prominently in Middle Eastern music--in some of these musical traditions, it is the only wind instrument used. ... A lip-reed aerophone with a predominantly cylindrical bore, the trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... The tabla is a widely popular South Asian percussion instrument used in the classical, popular and religious music of the northern Indian subcontinent. ... Percussion instruments are played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped. ...

Background

Between 1974 and 1980, Amadou played with Les Ambassadeurs du Hotel and in 1980 the couple got married and began to play together as well as Amadou continuing with a successful solo career and running the blind institute's music programme. 1974 (MCMLXXIV) is a common year starting on Tuesday (click on link for calendar). ... 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...

By 1985 the couple had made a name for themselves playing Malian blues and they embarked on a tour of Burkina Faso and in 1986 the couple moved to the Côte d'Ivoire and recorded several cassette albums and eventually a CD album "Sou Ni Tile" in Paris, which became a hit in France and started playing at festivals around the world. In 2003 they were approached by world/Latin music star Manu Chao, who then produced their 2004 album "Dimanche à Bamako" (Sunday in Bamako). 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Latin American music, or the music of Latin America, is sometimes called Latin music. ... Manu Chao Manu Chao (born June 21, 1961 in Paris; real name Jose-Manuel Thomas Arthur Chao; also occasionally credited as Oscar Tramor) is a French Latin folk singer of Spanish origin. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Discography

• Se Te Djon Ye (1999-01-26)
• Sou Ni Tile (1999-06-15)
• Tjé Ni Mousso (2000-10-19)
• Wati (2003-04-01)
• Dimanche à Bamako (2005-08-02)
• Je pense à toi: Best of (2005-10-25)

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External links

• Official website (in French)
• Biography on Radio France International website
• Article about the pair (in French)