Released last month, La Voix de la Révolution is a new compilation of songs by Sory Kandia Kouyaté, who died in 1977. Sory Kandia Kouyaté was one of the most celebrated singers in West Africa when he ...

Get ready to hear the greatest singer you've never heard - Sory Kandia Kouyaté, perhaps the most spectacular voice from West Africa, a region of inspiring, thrilling voices. This show was first aired ...

Sory Kandia Kouyate, the legendary West African jali (praise singer) and bandleader died suddenly in 1977, just a few years before African popular music took off internationally. He was just ...

Banning Eyre says a new compilation showcases one of the finest singers Africa has ever produced — and one who might have been an international... Sory Kandia Kouyaté: Guinea's Voice Of Revolution ...

Sory Kandia Kouyaté – ‘La Voix de la Révolution’ 6:26 (Sory’s amazingly powerful voice singing about his mother soars over the backing of Guinean Orchestra in 1970 with mellow tenor saxophone, ...

Banning Eyre says a new compilation showcases one of the finest singers Africa has ever produced — and one who might have been an international... Sory Kandia Kouyaté was one of the most celebrated ...

We've been inundated with rereleases of 1970s music from Africa, so it's refreshing to be informed of an extraordinary Guinean singer from an earlier era. And this is shivers-down-the-spine stuff.

Sory Kandia Kouyaté was one of the most celebrated singers in West Africa when he died suddenly in 1977. He was just 44, and given his spectacular voice, it's a safe bet that Kouyaté would have been ...