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." ...

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 ...

Apart from the people who were in the room at the time, actually making the rec-ord, no one seems to know a lot about Salif Keita's Lost Album, recorded with the guitarist Kante Manfila in Abidjan on ...

One of the most alluring aspects of Afro-pop singer Salif Keita’s sublime new album, “La Difference,” is its intimate feel. The arrangements–at once richly textured and gracefully… By Billboard Staff ...

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 ...

That is not to say that a preponderance of synthesizers and programmed drums did too much damage: Keita's music was attempting (and mostly succeeding in) a fusion process that utilised rock guitars, ...