Zal Idrissa Sissokho (Senegal, Quebec)

Biography of the artist:

One of his ancestors was the first kora player in history, and his brother, Younoussa, became the first griot to settle in Quebec, in the 1980s. In Senegal, the Sissokho family are among the greatest representatives of the griots, who have conveyed the history of the Mandinka people orally for centuries. In short, Zal Idrissa Sissokho was predestined to sing and play the kora.Born in Senegal, ...