Guinean singer SEKOUBA BAMBINO, as Sekouba Bambino Diabate is now known, was born into music - his father and mother were outstanding singers, but his father, who had become the CEO of a transport ...

It was literally poetic justice when West African music legend Sekouba Bambino escaped the Radisson Blu in Mali and gave the police key intel on the religious extremists who attacked the hotel, took ...

Popular Guinean singer Sekouba "Bambino" Diabate, who was a guest at the hotel, told Le Monde that he heard two of the attackers speaking in English “with a Nigerian accent”. The gunmen who carried ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. In his youth a stalwart of Guinea’s celebrated group Bembeya Jazz, Sékouba Diabaté (Bambino is a stage ...

Sekouba Bambino Diabate and his formidable voice celebrate his 15th year as a solo artist on his CD 15e Anniversaire. Both of Sekouba’s parents were griots - hereditary musicians - in Guinea, although ...