Amadou Bagayoko

Quick Facts

Full Name	Amadou Bagayoko
Occupation	Pop Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 24, 1954(1954-10-24)
Age	70
Birthplace	Bamako
Country	Mali
Horoscope	Scorpio

Amadou Bagayoko Biography

Amadou Bagayoko is one of the most popular and richest Pop Singer who was born on October 24, 1954 in Bamako, Mali. Guitarist and singer who’s best known as a member of the musical duo Amadou & Mariam. His album Welcome To Mali was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album at the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards.

He released collaboration singles with Manu Chao and Bertrand Cantat.

The duo’s early recordings in the 1980s and 1990s featured sparse arrangements of guitar and voice. Since the late 1990s Amadou & Mariam have produced music that mixes traditional Mali sound with rock guitars, Syrian violins, Cuban trumpets, Egyptian ney, Indian tablas and Dogon percussion. In combination these elements have been called “Afro-blues”.

By 1985 the couple had made a name for themselves playing Malian blues. They embarked on a tour of Burkina Faso. In 1986 the couple moved to Côte d’Ivoire and recorded several cassette albums. During this time they met Stevie Wonder, and the duo started playing at festivals around the world.

He married Mariam Doumbia in 1980. They began playing together in 1983.

Amadou Bagayoko Net Worth

Amadou Bagayoko is one of the richest Pop Singer from Mali. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Amadou Bagayoko 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He used to play guitar in the West African band Les Ambassadeurs du Motel de Bamako from 1974 to 1980.

They opened shows for Coldplay, The Scissor Sisters, and Blur.

Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the Bamako-born couple Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (born 24 October 1954) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born 15 April 1958).

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Who is Amadou Bagayoko Dating?

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Amadou & Mariam won the Best Group category in the inaugural Songlines Music Awards (2009) – announced 1 May 2009 – the new world music awards organised by the UK-based magazine, Songlines. On 26 May, they played a gig to support the homeless charity Crisis at the Union Chapel, in north London where they were joined on stage by their hero, Pink Floyd’s guitarist, David Gilmour, who played second guitar supporting the whole 80 minute set and a 5-minute encore. On 8 June, they performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on US TV Channel NBC. That same year, they supported Blur during their two reunion gigs in Hyde Park and also supported UK based band Coldplay on their Viva la Vida Tour on 8 shows. They also performed their duo set L’Afrique C’est Chic at the Jazz Cafe in London where they were joined on-stage by special guests including Theophilus London, Beth Orton, Krystle Warren; and they performed a headline show at the Roundhouse, London as part of the iTunes Festival. Also in the 2009, they became Zeitz Foundation Ambassadors for Culture (Art); they help raise awareness and shape activities in their respective dimension. They performed live at the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize ceremony.

Facts & Trivia

Amadou Ranked on the list of most popular Pop Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Mali. Amadou Bagayoko celebrates birthday on October 24 of every year.

In February 2011, Amadou & Mariam performed as one of the support acts for U2 during the Johannesburg and Cape Town legs of their U2 360 Tour. In July, they performed their first concerts in the dark, Eclipse, which were commissioned by the Manchester International Festival. They went on to stage these shows in London in November 2011, and in Paris in January 2012. In 2011, they also became ambassadors for the World Food Programme. They travelled to Haïti and offered a new song “Labendela” (Children are the future) as an anthem. Their early biography Away From The Light of Day was published in the US.

Do Amadou and Mariam have children?

The next step in Amadou’s personal and professional life came when he met Mariam at Mali’s Institute for the Young Blind, where both were singing in a choir. They became inseparable and began performing together, and later married and had three children.

Is Amadou et Mariam blind?

Amadou lost his vision at the age of 16, while Mariam became blind at age 5 as a consequence of untreated measles.

What language does Amadou and Mariam speak?

VF Daily: You speak Bambara (Mali’s national lauguage), French, a little English and Spanish, and some of several other Malian and African languages , and you use all of them on your albums. How do you decide what songs should be in what language?

Are Amadou and Mariam married?

Amadou and Mariam are a husband-and-wife duo from the West African nation of Mali. They met at an institute for the blind in the 1970s and made their recording debut as The Blind Couple of Mali.

Where are Amadou et Mariam from?

Bamako, Mali