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Sona Diabaté
Kankele-Ti

Album 1988 on Popular African Music label
World (Griot, African)

All compositions by Sona Diabaté, except Horro, trad., adapted by Sona Diabaté. All arrangements by Demba Camara. Produced by African Music, Frankfurt, with a lot of help from Productions Bolibana, Paris. Mixed and recorded directly on 2-track videotape by Günter Gretz in Paris on 13 September 1988. This record is dedicated to El Hadj Djeli Fodé Diabaté (the father of Sona, Sayon & Sekou who died 2 October 1988). M'boré - the youth of the old days was different from the youth of today: I talk about you, Marie Touré, in your beautiful boubou embroidered with gold... Koloman - we, the griots, are not the only ones doing their duties. Women always pounded the millet; men always cultivated the fields; the blacksmith always shaped the iron; the griots always praise the industrious... M'boté - happiness is back in our beautiful village: young and old, women and children, let's celebrate! Let's not listen to our enemy, he wont be satisfied anyway... Kankele-ti - I will be always following the man who is treating me well, wherever he goes. I just can't sit down here in Guinea without him. This man gives me pleasures I can't tell about. Girls of Guinea, search in all directions for your love... Horro - the honesty of a man is reflected in his deeds and in his words, since medieval times griots sing about honest men... Nassannaba - Since I met Princess Nassannaba Touré I don't bother anyore to run back and forth. If this lady, who has done so much for me, calls for me, I come for help, whether her call comes from Conakry, Bamako, Abidjan, Dakar or even from Paris. What an honour to be called by Mamy Wata, the queen of the oceans...

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	Sona Diabaté voc, *1959 GN composed by, adapted by, lead vocals, album by
	Demba Camara mar, acg, arranged by, twelve-string guitar
	Sékou Diabaté eb, GN guitar
	Fatoumata "N'Gadi" Bangoura vocals
	Sayon Diabaté voc, vocals

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