Lobi Traoré is a
Malian musician. He was born in
1961 in the village of Bakaridianna, on the
Niger River close to
Ségou. His singing has been described in
The Economist as "flat, strangely penetrating tone, somewhere between rap and blues".His breakthrough album, Bamako, produced by
Ali Farka Touré, was released in 1994. It was voted one of the best rock albums of the year by
Libération and one of the best world music albums by
Le Monde.DiscographyBambara blues (1992)Bamako (1994)Ségou (1996)Duga (1999)Mali Blue (2004)The Lobi Traoré Group (2005)
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