Alhaji Bai Konte

Alhaji Bai Konte has over 3290 followers across Spotify, LastFM and YouTube Music. Currently we track 3 digital music and social platforms for Alhaji Bai Konte. When AVR-Music Stats last calculated the current growth of Alhaji Bai Konte's social media following, it was roughly 0 followers per day. We collect data on 10,000’s of rappers, singers, musicians, producers, bands & DJs from around the world across multiple genres including edm, rock, hip hop, grime, pop, jazz, folk and many more. Found something missing? You can add data for Alhaji Bai Konte here.

Alhaji Bai Konte's Music Bio

Alhaji Bai Konte (b. 1920; d. 1982 or 1983) was a jali (praise singer) from Brikama, Gambia. He played the 21-string kora and is believed to have been the first kora player to perform and tour in the United States as a soloist, playing at the 1973 Newport Jazz Festival. (Les Ballets Africains, a dance and music group from Guinea, had first performed in the U.S. in 1959, and featured a kora player.) His sons Dembo Konte and Sherrifo Konteh (sic) live in Brikama, Gambia. Read more on Last.fm

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