For the Malian footballer, see Salif Keita (footballer). For the Senegalese footballer, see Salif Keita (Senegalese footballer).
Salif Keita, center, in Washington, DC. June 28, 2006. Members of his band behind him.

Salif Keïta (born August 25, 1949) is an afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the "Golden Voice of Africa" but because he has albinism and is a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita. This royal heritage meant that under the Malian caste system, he should never have become a singer, which was deemed to be a griot’s role.

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Biography [link]

Early life [link]

Keita was born in the village of Djoliba. He was cast out by his family and ostracized by the community because of his albinism, a sign of bad luck in Mandinka culture.[1] He left Djoliba for Bamako in 1967, where he joined the government sponsored Super Rail Band de Bamako. In 1973 Keita joined the group, Les Ambassadeurs. Keita and Les Ambassadeurs fled political unrest in Mali during the mid-1970s for Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire and subsequently changed the group's name to "Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux". The reputation of Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux rose to the international level in the 1970s and in 1977. Keita received a National Order award from the president of Guinea, Sékou Touré.

Career [link]

Keita moved to Paris in 1984 to reach a larger audience. His music combines traditional West African music styles with influences from both Europe and the Americas, while maintaining an overall Islamic style. Musical instruments that are commonly featured in Keita's work include balafons, djembes, guitars, koras, organs, saxophones, and synthesizers. In 1990, Keita contributed "Begin the Beguine" to the Cole Porter tribute/AIDS benefit album Red Hot + Blue, produced by the Red Hot Organization.

Keita found success in Europe as one of the African stars of world music, but his work was sometimes criticised for the gloss of its production and for the occasional haphazard quality. However, shortly after the turn of the Millennium he returned to Bamako in Mali to live and record. His first work after going home, 2002's Moffou was hailed as his best album in many years, and Keita was inspired to build a recording studio in Bamako, which he used for his album M'Bemba, released in October 2005.

Keita's latest album, La Différence, was produced around the end of 2009. The work is dedicated to the struggle of the world albino community (victims of human sacrifice), for which Keita has been crusading all his life. In one of the album's tracks, the singer calls others to understand that "difference" does not mean "bad" and to show love and compassion towards albinos like everyone else:"I am black/ my skin is white/ so I am white and my blood is black [albino]/...I love that because it is a difference that's beautiful...", "some of us are beautiful some are not/some are black some are white/all that difference was on purpose...for us to complete each other/let everyone get his love and dignity/the world will be beautiful."

La Différence is unique in that for the first time Keita has clearly and boldly combined different melodic influences to produce a highly original musical feel, with a wide range of appeal. The album was recorded between Bamako, Beirut, Paris, and Los Angeles. This unique musical feel is reinforced by soulful pitches in the track "Samigna" emanating from the trumpet of the great Lebanese jazzman Ibrahim Maaluf.

La Difference won Keita one of the biggest musical awards of his career: the Best World Music 2010 at the Victoires de la musique.

Discography [link]

A lot of compilations are available as well [2]

References [link]

  1. ^ Artist Profile - Salif Keita
  2. ^ Salif Keita Discography Compiled by Graeme Counsel , Radio Africa, retrieved 2009-04-20

External links [link]


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Salif Kéïta (Central African footballer)

Salif Kéïta (born 10 April 1990) is Central African international footballer who plays for the club Difaa El Jadida, primarily as a forward. He played at the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification.

Career Statistics

International

Statistics accurate as of match played 6 September 2013

International goals

References

External links

  • FIFA.com profile


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    Salif Keïta (Malian footballer)

    Salif Keïta Traoré (born 8 December 1946), known as Keita, is a Malian retired footballer who played as a striker.

    Club career

    Keita was born in Bamako, playing in his country for AS Real Bamako and Stade Malien. With the former, which he represented in two different spells, he was always crowned top division champion.

    In 1967, 20-year-old Keita left for France to join AS Saint-Étienne, where he won three consecutive Ligue 1 titles, including the double in 1968 and 1970. In his last two seasons with Les Verts combined, he scored an astonishing 71 league goals – 42 alone in the 1970–71 campaign – but the club failed to win any silverware; in 1970, he was voted African Footballer of the Year.

    Keita joined fellow league side Olympique de Marseille in the 1972 summer. After the club tried to force him to assume French nationality, he opposed, leaving in the ensuing off-season for Valencia CF in Spain.

    Spanish newspapers were accused of racism when one headline read El Valencia va a por alemanes y vuelve con un negro ("Valencia goes out to buy Germans and comes back with a black man"), but he was always loved during his spell at the club, netting in his debut with the Che, a 2–1 La Liga home win against Real Oviedo, and being eventually nicknamed La perla negra de Malí (The black pearl of Mali); he complained, however, that he was constantly played out of position.

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    Salif Keita (disambiguation)

    Salif Keita (born 1949) is a Malian singer-songwriter.

    Salif Keita or Salif Keïta may also refer to:

  • Salif Keïta (Malian footballer) (born 1946), Malian footballer
  • Salif Keita (Senegalese footballer) (born 1975), Senegalese footballer
  • Salif Kéïta (Central African footballer) (born 1990), Central African Republican footballer
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    Salif Keita (Senegalese footballer)

    Salif Keïta (born 19 October 1975 in Dakar) is a Senegalese professional footballer who currently plays for AS Douanes.

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    Salif

    Salif may refr to:

    Places

  • As-Salif, coastal village in western Yemen
  • As Salif District, district of Al Hudaydah Governorate, Yemen

    • Persons

  • Salif (rapper), French rapper
  • Salif Diallo (born 1957), Burkinabé politician
  • Salif Cissé (born 1994), German football player
  • Salif Coulibaly (born 1988), Malian football player
  • Salif Dianda (born 1987), Burkinabé football player
  • Salif Diao (born 1977), Senegalese football player
  • Salif Diao (Dutch footballer) (born 1990), Dutch footballer
  • Salif Keïta (born 1949), Malian afro-pop singer-songwriter
  • Salif Keïta (Malian footballer) (born 1946), Malian football player
  • Salif Keita (Senegalese footballer) (born 1975), Senegalese football player
  • Salif Kéïta (Central African footballer) (born 1990), Central African Republican football player
  • Salif Nogo (born 1986), Burkina Faso-French football player
  • Salif Sané (born 1990), French football player of Senegalese origin

    • Others

  • Centre Salif Keita aka as CSK, Malian football club based in Bamako
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    Salif (rapper)

    Salif Fofana better known by the mononym Salif (born Salif Wonka 1982), is a French rapper based in Boulogne-Billancourt of Malian and Guadeloupean origin. His musical career began at the age of thirteen when he and EXS formed the rap duo Nysay in 1995. Salif released his first solo album, Tous Ensemble – Chacun Pour Soi, in 2001. To date he has released four studio albums, all of which have entered the Top 75 of the French albums chart. His most commercially successful album so far was Curriculum Vital, which reached a peak position of #9 in the French chart in October 2009.

    Discography

    Albums

    Singles

  • 2009: "Boomerang"
  • 2010: "Jean Slim"

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    Podcasts:

    Salif Keita

    ALBUMS

    Talé

    Released 2012

    Anthology

    Released 2011

    La Différence

    Released 2009

    Remixes from Moffou

    Released 2008

    M'Bemba

    Released 2005

    The Lost Album

    Released 2005

    Moffou

    Released 2005

    The Best of Salif Keita: The Golden Voice

    Released 2002

    Papa

    Released 1999

    "Folon"... The Past

    Released 1995

    69 . 80

    Released 1994

    The Mansa of Mali...a Retrospective

    Released 1994

    Amen

    Released 1991

    Best of the Early Years

    L'enfant lion

    Soro

    Ko-Yan

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    by: Salif Keita

    Niye N'diyagne finye
    Ni ye ne diye finye
    Ni ye N'diyagne Koye
    Ni bole N'diyafinna
    Cherie Bo o bo a nala
    Aye n'diye finye
    Cherie bo o bo anala
    Ale yarabini n'fana yarabila
    An lone nara lone le bara na fa
    N'diya namo barra na
    Aba voyager abawa voyage la
    Kelena kouma nale n'ma
    Aba voyage nadon wara voyage djan na
    Kelena tamaa nela maloyala
    Aba voyage ondoni bara bouger
    Na bougera na tara voyage la
    Na an ma gnoniena ote ben
    Je veux te cherche
    N'Ma kono sa
    N'Ma kono
    je veux te trouve
    An n'ma kono, n'ma kono, n'ma kono,
    N'ma kono N'tena mena feou
    Demoussou tigui lou Djonnin ye kounefe fa
    N'ko Dembatigui lou N'kon djon koune fe N'fa
    Demoussonin bebolo amalo ke min bata
    Adibe mokolon ma adibe mossobe ma tegnaye
    Fiba dounia yoro tegue donninke djonin yi kounnefe
    N'diyanamo benin herelelo
    Je veux te chercher
    N'ma kono sa
    N'ma kon An n'ma kono, n'ma kono, n'ma kono,
    N'ma kono netena mena fewou
    Ou va se marie
    Je veux te chercher, je te trouver
    On va se marie
    Je veux te chercher
    Niye N'diyagne finye
    Ni tene diyagne kola
    Ni ye ne diye finye
    ni bolen N'diyagne finla
    Cherie bo o bo aye
    Aye n'diya nafin ye
    Cherie bo o bo a bara na
    n'diyanamo benin yerelelo
    I bawa Bamako,
    N'doni bawa Segou,
    Ibawa Mopti, he bawa Kayes N'fa
    N'diya namo fonga soro wodo
    Ibawa karifa bougouya Ne diwa Karafibougouya
    Ibawa kankan djelmandi ibawa kankan tala ndiwa
    Ndiwa kankan kamasoro woto
    N'na le sara kan to Kankan N'mala wili oma
    Je veux te cherche
    N'no no no no (repeat)
    No no no N'teme
    No N'teme voyage la
    N'tenamena kile ton koyan
    On va se marie
    Je veux te chercher
    N'Makono sa allah diyanamo N'kono
    An makono makono Makono Makono N'tenamena fewou
    N'ma kono Allah Diyanamo N'ma kono
    yan Ma n'makono, n'makono, n'makono n'makono, n'makono
    Je veux te chercher
    je veux te trouver
    No no no (Repeat)
    On va se marie
    An newato voyage las




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