Sekouba Bambino is the stage name of Sekouba "Bambino" Diabaté, a singer and musician born in Guinea, West Africa in 1964. Diabaté hails from the village of Kintinya, some 25 kilometers from the town of Siguiri. He was born into a musical family, and is descended from a long line of griot people, known in some Mande languages as jeli. From the age of eight, Diabaté sang with local bands and began to achieve musical renown. In 1983, at the age of 19, Diabaté was tapped to join Bembeya Jazz, Guinea's best-known musical group. He was given the nickname "Bambino" to distinguish him from one of the group's guitarists also named Sekou Diabaté (a.k.a. Sekou "Bembeya" a.k.a. "Diamond Fingers"). With Bembeya Jazz, the young vocalist undertook his first tour of Africa in 1985 and toured Europe the following year. Sekouba Bambino released his first solo recording in 1991, and throughout the 1990s continued to record solo material as w

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