African musical great you've never heard of
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 44-years-old, and sadly, he’s hardly mentioned these days but had he continued his pioneering career, I’m sure he would have been as famous as his compatriot Mory Kante, or other internationally renowned West…