{"id":19331,"date":"2019-03-20T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2019\/03\/20\/salif-keita-gives-his-blessing-and-takes-a-final-bow-with-un-autre-blanc\/"},"modified":"2019-03-20T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T20:24:00","slug":"salif-keita-gives-his-blessing-and-takes-a-final-bow-with-un-autre-blanc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/salif-keita-gives-his-blessing-and-takes-a-final-bow-with-un-autre-blanc\/","title":{"rendered":"Salif Keita Gives His Blessing And Takes A Final Bow With 'Un Autre Blanc'"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Banning Eyre<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

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Salif Keita<\/a>, one of the best African singers of the past century, had a 40-plus-year career that took him around the world and produced some 25 albums. Now, Keita is retiring from recording and in October 2018, he released his final album is Un Autre Blanc<\/em>, or Another White<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 1987, Keita introduced an iconic voice to the world with his album Soro<\/em>. Keita sang to his father, a master hunter in his native village in Mali, “O, Sina, your son is lost far away from home.” Living then in Paris, Keita may have felt lost, but he was also finding himself. As someone born an albino to a royal family, his early choice to become a singer was both taboo and an act of courage for a young man who considered himself an outcast. After years of singing in urban African bands, Keita made his own statement and launching a movement of modern African music.<\/p>\n

All these years later, Keita returns to the studio with confidence, passion, pride, gratitude and still, that incredible voice. The song “Were Were” praises the great leaders of Africa, from Lumumba to Mandela and is the grandest subject Keita addresses in the album. The album title “Another White” is more personal. It refers to Keita’s albinism, a defining feature of his life that he has sung and spoken about often. <\/p>\n

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The album’s title, Another White, <\/em>meanwhile, <\/em>is more personal and refers to Keita’s albinism, a defining feature of his life that he has sung and spoken about often. <\/p>\n