As Amadou & Mariam, he and his wife were improbable pop stars on two counts. Their style was venturesome and eclectic, and they were blind virtuosos. By Alex Traub Amadou Bagayoko, a Malian ...

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 Bagayoko, one half of great Malian duo Amadou & Mariam, died on Friday following an illness. The Malian ministry of culture released a statement saying they “learned with concern of the ...

Malian singer Amadou Bagayoko of the duo Amadou and Mariam performs at La Boule Noire concert hall in Paris on November 21, 2004 [File: Stephane De Sakutin/AFP] Published On 5 Apr 20255 Apr 2025 ...

Amadou Bagayoko (1954-2025), iconic Malian guitarist ... The married singers, who met when she was 18 and he 21, took traditional Mali music and blended it with western rock and many other ...

Amadou & Mariam formed in 1974. Their fifth studio album Dimanche À Bamako brought them worldwide success, and its follow-up, 2008’s Welcome To Mali , earned them a Grammy nomination for Best ...

After meeting in 1976, when Amadou was 21 and Mariam 18, the pair discovered they had similar tastes in music. They began touring together from the 1980s, mixing traditional west African ...

Amadou Bagayoko, the Malian guitarist and singer from the Grammy-nominated duo Amadou & Mariam, has died at age 70 after a period of illness, his family confirmed. Alongside his wife and musical ...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Renowned guitarist and singer Amadou Bagayoko of Mali’s music duo Amadou & Mariam has died at the age of 70. Mali’s Minister of Culture Mamou Daffé paid tribute to the ...

Guitarist Amadou Bagayoko has died. He was 70 years old. He was half of the renowned duo Amadou & Mariam. Known as the Blind Couple from Mali, they lifted their country's music to stages around ...

Amadou Bagayoko, the award-winning Malian singer and guitarist in the husband-and-wife duo Amadou & Mariam, has died, according to The Associated Press. In a local televised broadcast, Mali’s ...

FILE - Blind duo from Mali, Amadou Bagayoko, right, and Mariam Doumbia, seen, during a concert in Paris, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, file) (Michel Euler, AP2008) BAMAKO ...