Les ambassadeur et salif keita biography

Salif Keita started his career as a professional singer in , when he became a singer of one of the two big bands in Mali, the Rail Band. The Rail Band, that played in the restaurant of the railway station of Bamako, had already started using Malian musical traditions in addition to Latin classics.

In , Salif changed to another big band, les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako, which was considered making more modern music. In , the group changed its name to Ambassadeurs Internationaux when key members moved to Abidjan, in order to look for more possibilities for recording and for reaching new (international) audiences.

In , Salif moved to France and started a solo career and his first solo album, the outstanding &#; Soro &#; created a buzz among music fans.

The album is seen as innovating because of the, for African music of that decade, particularly high production standards (the album has been produced by François Br