Fanta Sacko is a
Malian musician, whose debut, self-titled LP launched the
bajourou music genre
A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions. Genre is to be distinguished from musical form and musical style, although in practice these terms are sometim ...
. She has helped establish a female singing tradition in Mali, which makes that country unique in West Africa, where female popular musicians are not generally approved of.
References
Living people
Malian musicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Malian people
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