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Amadou & Mariam

Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are a couple in life and on stage, known as Amadou & Mariam, formed in 1980 in Bamako, Mali. Both artists lost their sight in their youth, and both began playing music very early. She sang at weddings from the age of 6 and he started playing percussion at a very young age, before learning the guitar at 10. They met while playing in the orchestra of the Institute for Blind Youth in Bamako in 1975 and began making music together in 1980. They moved to Abidjan in 1986 and, between 1989 and 1993, released a series of cassettes: five volumes entitled...