Skip to main contentSkip to navigation

Salif Keita

March 2023

  • Walton Dangarembizi

    Other lives
    Walton Dangarembizi obituary

    Other lives: Music promoter who was also a DJ and drummer, and ran a club at the Africa Centre in London

July 2019

  • 79-year-old Calpyso Rose performing at Womad 2019.

    Womad festival review – polyphony and politics in global soundclash

    Septuagenarians shone at the 37th edition of the globe-trotting music festival, that also subtly railed against Brexit with quirky European talent

February 2019

  • Malian musician Salif Keita, in Paris.

    Salif Keita: ‘Democracy is not a good thing for Africa’

    The ‘golden voice of Africa’ has just released his final album. And though he is visibly tired, he is still in love with his guitar

January 2019

  • Mali singer Salif Keita with his guitar

    Salif Keita: Un Autre Blanc review – a retirement gift from a singular voice

    Keita’s final album features everyone from Angélique Kidjo to Alpha Blondy, but it’s his vocals that stand out

November 2014

  • africa stop ebola

    Guardian Africa network
    Social media rallies behind west African alternative to Band Aid 30

    After an outpouring of criticism for Bob Geldof’s response to Ebola, Twitter shows its support for a different charity single with a practical message

July 2014

  • Les Ambassadeurs 
Du Motel De Bamako

    Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako review – one of Africa's great bands

    This compilation of songs by the legendary 1970s Mali band, featuring Salif Keita and Amadou Bagayoko, is glorious, writes Robin Denselow

April 2014

  • Salif Keita performs on stage at Barbican Centre

    Salif Keita review – unplugged but still electric

  • Salif Keita Performs At The Barbican Centre In London

    Salif Keita and Seckou Keita – review

December 2013

  • Africa Express at Maison des Jeunes in Bamako, Mali

    Africa Express Presents: Maison Des Jeunes – review

    Africa Express's mission to promote co-operation between African and western musicians continues apace on this magnificent compilation, writes Robin Denselow

March 2013

  • Hugh Masekela headlines at WOMADelaide

    WOMADelaide festival 2013 – review

  • Hugh Masekela headlines at WOMADelaide

    WOMADelaide festival 2013 – in pictures

January 2013

  • Malian singer Rokia Traoré

    Glastonbury 2013 lineup: first act announced

  • Tinariwen band performing, Johannesburg

    Mali music ban by Islamists 'crushing culture to impose rule'

July 2011

  • Singer Salif Keita From Mali Performs At Swiss Festival

    Can opera singers sing pop – and vice versa?

    Orlando Gough: It takes years of training for opera singers to master their art. But would those skills help or hinder in singing pop songs?

February 2011

  • Cesaria Evora: Cesaria Evora & ... – review

    Evora is the one of the most distinctive, exquisitely sad and soulful singers in the world, writes Robin Denselow

September 2010

  • P-Square

    African music the actual African diaspora likes

    What is Britain's African disapora listening to? Surprise: it's not what we call world music. Jane Cornwell finds out what gets the expats jumping

March 2010

  • Salif Keita: La différence

    The biggest surprise on this set is that Salif Keita seems to have settled down into a predictable, if classy, routine, writes Robin Denselow

November 2009

  • Sleeve for Salif Keita's Moffou

    Albums of the decade
    Albums of the decade No 9: Salif Keita – Moffou

    Charlie Gillett: West Africa produced many outstanding releases during the noughties, but the Malian singer's stark and haunting album was the most remarkable

May 2007

  • Salif Keita

    Roundhouse, London

November 2005

  • Salif Keita

    Barbican, London

About 27 results for Salif Keita
12
Explore more on these topics
  翻译: