Jalikebba Kuyateh is a dynamic, virtuoso kora player specialising in the Afro-Manding style, as well as a singer, composer and music teacher from The Gambia. Under his father’s guidance, he began learning the 21-string African kora at the age of six and has been playing the instrument ever since, both as a soloist and as a member of numerous African music groups.
Currently performing with new ensembles in Leipzig, he presents the joyful, serious and progressive sounds of his kora to the world through a fusion of traditional and modern African music.