Mamadou Diabaté

His fifth album, Courage, was recorded in Mali and released in 2011. A review in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer described it as "a truly remarkable disc of music and deserves to be considered equal to anything written or recorded by any composer or symphony orchestra in the rest of the world".

His fourth his solo album Douga Mansa, a tribute to his father and grandfather, won the 2010 Grammy for Best Traditional World Music Album. Also in 2010, he was part of the world music trio Djan Djan which included Bobby Singh, an Australian tabla player, and Jeff Lang, an Australian slide guitarist.

In 2005, Diabaté was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Traditional World Music Album category for Behmanka, but lost to the collaboration between his cousin Toumani Diabate and Ali Farka Toure. The album was described as a "dazzling duet for one" by The Washington Post, while Philip Van Vleck, reviewing it for Billboard, described it as "a feat of remarkable virtuosity".

His 2000 debut album Tunga mixed West African music with blues and jazz influences. A review in CMJ New Music Report commented on Diabate's "faster, nimbler style of kora playing". The album featured bassists Cheick Barry and Ira Coleman.

In 1996, he went on to travel with a group of the Instrumental Ensemble of Mali, and eventually settled in the United States. Since his move to the US, Diabaté has performed with several musicians from the country, including jazz players Randy Weston, Guy Davis, and Donald Byrd, as well as with a griot ensemble composed of musicians from Mali and the United States.

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Mamadou Diabaté (born 1975) is a Malian musician known for his work with the kora. He began playing quite early in his life, became known as a musician in the area of Mali in which he lived, and has since moved to the United States, recording several albums.