For the past fifteen years, Mansa Sissoko has been performing across Mali in village and major centres like Timbuktou, Segou and Bamako, and for five years with one of the Malian greats, Habib Koite . Brought up in a special village called Kita in Mali, Mansa is of the Malinke people who, in his words, are “cultivators of the soil, …the root of so much of the traditional music coming out of Mali… of blues… of jazz. We are a healthy root, alive and well.” Griot, singer, kora player and songwriter, Mansa Sissoko comes to Canada to tell us that
"life is a good thing."

Mansa has just released his new album 'N'tomi '.

and has summer 2004 concerts in Canada: