Amadou & Mariam

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Amadou and Mariam (2005)
Amadou and Mariam (2005)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Dimanche à Bamako
  DE 93 07/11/2005 (1 week)
  CH 39 05/29/2005 (16 weeks)
Welcome to Mali
  CH 82 07/12/2008 (1 week)
Folila
  CH 53 04/15/2012 (3 weeks)
Singles
La réalité
  CH 73 05/15/2005 (8 weeks)
Time for something to turn (with Herbert Grönemeyer )
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 06/01/2006 (37 weeks)
  AT 2 06/01/2006 (20 weeks)
  CH 17th 06/04/2006 (13 weeks)
Sabali
  CH 91 07/12/2008 (1 week)

Amadou and Mariam are a musical duo from Mali , consisting of the couple Mariam Doumbia (vocals, born April 15, 1958 in Bamako ) and Amadou Bagayoko (guitar, vocals, born October 24, 1954 in Bamako).

The couple, known as “The Blind Couple from Mali”, came together at the Institute for Young Blind People in the mid-1970s.

Band history

Between 1974 and 1980 Amadou played with Ambassadeurs du Motel . In 1980 he married Mariam. From then on, the two made music together and started a tour in Burkina Faso in 1985 . They then moved to the Ivory Coast and recorded numerous cassettes, which gave them a high profile throughout West Africa.

The album Sou Ni Tile sold very well in France and ensured that Amadou and Mariam could perform at various world music festivals around the world. In 2004 Manu Chao produced the album Dimanche à Bamako with them , the single Sénégal Fast Food of which became quite well known.

In 2006, together with Herbert Grönemeyer , they both recorded time that something is turning (Celebrate the Day) , the official song for the 2006 World Cup .

Her album Welcome to Mali , released in 2008, was produced by the British musician Damon Albarn from Blur and was nominated for a Grammy in the category "World Music" in 2009.

On June 10, 2010 they performed at the opening concert for the World Cup in Johannesburg .

Music genre

In their music they mix traditional Malian melodies with rock guitars, violin , trumpet , the Arabic longitudinal flute ney , trombone , Dogonian percussion instruments and occasionally the Indian tabla and the Indian string instrument sarangi . Their colorful mix is ​​often referred to as "Afro blues ".

The debut album characterized the MusikWoche : “African folklore melodies mix with unpolished rhythm & blues , reminiscent of early Stax and Motown productions. The whole thing is garnished with Latin horns and a shimmering harmonica. "

Awards

  • 2004: Tamani for the best video clip: "Dimanche à Bamako"
  • 2004: Tamani for the best African duo
  • 2009: Nomination for a Grammy in the world music category

Discography

  • 1998: Sou Ni Tile
  • 1999: Se Te Djon Ye
  • 2000: Tjé Ni Mousso
  • 2003: Wati
  • 2005: Dimanche à Bamako
  • 2005: The Best of ( compilation )
  • 2005: 1990-1995: L'integrale Des Années Maliennes (compilation)
  • 2008: Welcome to Mali
  • 2012: Folila
  • 2017: La Confusion

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chart sources: DE ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  2. ↑ Amadou et Mariam. Sou Ni Tilé . In: MusikWoche . No. 34/1998 , August 17, 1998, news, p. 29 .

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