Salif Keita, one of the best African singers of the past century, had a 40-plus-year career that took him around the world and produced some 25 albums. Now, Keita is retiring from recording and in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. If you came to world music in the 1980s, your introduction probably came in the form of a low synthesiser chord ...

Salif Keita possesses one of the world s unique voices powerful, sensitive, and blessed with a huge range; he draws from styles and forms of his Malian homeland, incorporating Islamic, soul, rock, ...

Support 110 years of independent journalism. Three unorthodox Africans know how to cast a spell over their audience By Simon Broughton African Soul Rebels Barbican Hall, London EC2 This is now the ...

An albino who was nearly blind at birth, Salif Keita grew up as an outcast in his home country of Mali despite being the direct descendant of Soundjata Keita, the warrior emperor who founded the ...

Salif Keita is known today as the "golden voice" of Africa, but in his youth he was an outcast, unaccepted by his community because he was born with albinism. Turning to music as an outlet, Keita rose ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Albums news every morning. If you came to world music in the 1980s, your introduction probably came in the form of a low synthesiser ...

Salif Keita, the fine guitarist and astounding singer from Mali in West Africa, opened and closed his Royce Hall performance with gentle acoustic music from his current Universal release "Moffou." ...