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3 unusual facts about kora


Kora-class corvette

In 2012, it was reported that Mauritius had ordered 2 vessels based on this class from the Garden Reach Shipbuilders.

Kora, Katihar

Many Bengali Hindus settled in the town wherever they found a place.

Government of India provided them with piece of land to settle now known as Ek(1) number and Do(2) number colonies, along with them many Bengali Hindus who were already there in Korha also settled in this place to mix with their own during that period of time.


Anil Dhawan

Actress/director Asha Parekh directed him in the television serial, "Kora Kogaz" in the 1990s.

Ballaké Sissoko

His 2005 album, Tomora, features Toumani Diabaté on kora, singers Alboulkadri Barry and Rokia Traoré and Fanga Diawara, violin soloist of the Mali National Instrumental Ensemble.

Bil Aka Kora

Bilgho Akaramata Kora, also known as Bil Aka Kora (born April 25, 1971, , Burkina Faso) is a musician.

Dembo Konte and Kausu Kuyateh

Konte lives in Brikama, in an area of The Gambia noted for its musical traditions and is the son of Alhaji Bai Konte, also a noted kora player and singer in his own right.

Feoffees' Lands

Guests: Martin Barre (guitars), David Hughes (guitar, backing vocals), Mark Tucker (backing vocals), John Giblin (basses, Ravi kora and Tibetan overtone singing), Miles Bould (percussion), Jacqui's daughter Leah (backing vocals), Nathan Bray (trumpet), Barnaby Dickinson (trombone).

Habib Faye

He takes the blend of African music and jazz to a new level adding traditional African instruments such as Kora, Sabar, Tama, and lesser-known ones.

Khoshi District

Khoshi is a long narrow green valley, beginning from Qala-e-Wazer of Pul-i-Alam and ending into Lata Kora mountain in Dobandi.

Kora Jazz Trio

Kora Jazz Trio was a three piece African musical group, founded in 2002 by Djeli Moussa Diawara, Guinean Korafola, with Abdoulaye Diabate and Moussa Sissokho, best known for producing a music that is a mix of American jazz with traditional African music.

Lucy Durán

She is a regular presenter of BBC Radio 3's world music programme World Routes and a producer of record albums by African musicians including Kora player Toumani Diabate, singer Kasse Mady Diabate, ngoni player Bassekou Kouyate and Sephardic singer Yasmin Levy.

Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté

Since 1997, Madou has been playing lead kora with some of the most important West African singers and musicians, including Kandia Kouyaté, Baaba Maal, and Salif Keita, among others.

Papa Susso

Susso has also been appointed as Regents' Lecturer in ethnomusicology in 1991 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, He appears alone with his kora or with his ensemble that includes singer/dancer Tapa Demba, balafonist Bala Kouyate and his son, Alhassan Susso, on second kora.

Rail Band

From early on the band featured electric guitar, electric organ, saxophone, horns, and a western drum kit alongside Mande music using kora, balafon, Ngoni, talking drums, Islamic-style, Mande hunter co-fraternity song, and Griot praise-singing vocals .

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The British won, but they did not take any territory; the whole of Awadh was restored to the Nawab, and the Mughal emperor Shah Alam was restored the subahs of Allahabad and Kora in the lower Doab, with a British garrison in the fort of Allahabad.

Volker Goetze

In 2007, he signed a record deal with ObliqSound, for a duo project with Ablaye Cissoko, a master Kora-player and singer from Senegal, which Goetze produced.


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