"I'm very happy, excited, and anxious," El Malilla says with a huge grin on his face minutes before making Coachella history.

Amadou Bagayoko and his wife, the singer Mariam Doumbia, rose from icons in Mali to international success over the last two ...

The famous blind couple, Amadou & Mariam, helped take Mali’s rich musical traditions to a new global audience.

The blind musician combined traditional African music with rock, pop, and blues in the husband-and-wife project ...

He was 70 years old. He was half of the renowned duo Amadou & Mariam. Known as the Blind Couple from Mali, they lifted their ...

Young Malian singer Sidiki Diabate lamented "another immense loss for Malian music". Congolese singer Fally Ipupa, who was due to work with Amadou & Miriam, wrote on Facebook that he "still cannot ...

Guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of the star Malian music duo Amadou & Mariam has died aged 70 following an illness, his family said on Friday, paying tribute to the Grammy-nominated blind ...

Friends, family and fans flocked in mourning to the home of Malian music star Amadou Bagayoko yesterday a day after he died aged 70, AFP reporters saw. One half of the husband-and-wife duo Amadou ...

Friends, family and fans flocked in mourning to the home of Malian music star Amadou Bagayoko yesterday a day after he died aged 70. One half of the husband-and-wife duo Amadou & Mariam ...

"Amadou was a blind man who made his mark on the Malian and international scene." Bagayoko was born in Bamako in 1954 and played music from an early age. He met his wife and musical partner Mariam ...

Bamako (AFP) – Friends, family and fans flocked in mourning to the home of Malian music star Amadou Bagayoko on Saturday a day after he died aged 70, AFP reporters saw. One half of the husband ...

Bagayoko, who became blind at the age of 15 due to a congenital cataract, studied music at Mali’s Institute for the Young Blind, where he met his future wife and band mate, Mariam Doumbia ...