Financial musician Amadou Baguoko dies in 70 | Music news

Baguoko and his wife, the blind duo Amadou and Mary, became one of the best music artists in Africa.

The financial music that was nominated by Grammy Amadou Baguyuko, who won world fame by pouring traditional sounds in West Africa with the effects of Western rock and pop, died as half of the blind duo Amadou and Mariam died at the age of 70.

“I learned anxiously about the death of the artist Amadou Baguyuko on Friday,” said the Ministry of Financial Culture, as he said in a statement that he read on government television on Saturday.

“Amadou was a blind man who made his fingerprints on the financial and international scene.”

Baguoko died in Bamako, his hometown. His head, Youssouf Fadi, told Agence France -Presse that the musician was “sick for a while” but he did not specify what the disease was. He survived Mary, who was also his wife and son Sam, also a musician.

“The blind couple from Mali”

Amadou and Mariam have become one of the best-selling husbands in Africa, “the blind couple of Mali”, which is one of the best-selling husbands in Africa, along with the likes of Damon Albarne from Bloor and Gorlals, and guitarist Benck Floyd David Gilmour-the child of childhood.

Bagyuko was born in 1954, and he went blind when he was 15 years old due to the congenital eye lens. He studied music at the Mali Institute for the Blind, where he met his future wife, Mariam Dumbia. The couple formed their blind husband in the Mali band in 1980, which made their fingerprint locally and internationally.

Initially, they sang songs to raise awareness of the problems facing their peers who live blindly and disabilities before their mixture of traditional African influences with elements of rock, blues and pop music, winning them for a global follower.

They produced more than 10 award -winning albums, including France’s Victoire de la Musique, in 2005 for Dimanche A Bamako and again in 2013 for Folila. Dimanche A Bamako was won by one of the BBC World Music Radio Awards in 2006.

Their album for 2008 was nominated for Mali, for the Best Contemporary World Music album in the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music album.

They opened for the British group Coldplay in 2009, and they performed at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in the same year when US President Barack Obama won the award.

The last Bagayogo global performance with Doumbia was at the closing of the Paris 2024 Paralympic games.

The Spanish musician, born in French Manu Zhao, who produced the album Dimanc Bamako, offered his condolences online, along with other international artists. He said, “Amadou! We’ll always be together … with you wherever you go.”

“I will never forget his friendship.” “My thoughts are with Mary, dear.”