This instrument has to be one of the most underrated instruments. In the hands of a skilled virtuoso it’s one of the most beautiful instruments I’ve heard.

When the strings are plucked, I feel the strings of my heart are being plucked. Though my ancestors left Africa hundreds of years ago, I can feel the blood running into my veins.

@flamin7040

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful comment

@edmund6392

2 жыл бұрын

I love your comment. It speaks to my heart. Thanks for posting.

@Leo-lj6vs

2 жыл бұрын

@Tim Papondopulos Forced into slavery.

@lokoleap9015

2 жыл бұрын

Like it

@titonjuguna4886

2 жыл бұрын

When the strings are plucked I fell my sorrows are plucked away and calmness comes within I.🔥🔥

The only thing better than a kora is two koras.

@LomNava

3 жыл бұрын

Well said

@saralifschitz1385

3 жыл бұрын

✌

@suzan7158

3 жыл бұрын

👍🖤💜💛

@forchitadolf7765

3 жыл бұрын

Wise brethren

@haf2567

3 жыл бұрын

I think this is the most unique expression I have ever seen.

This song deserves billions of views. African people we must put respect on our traditions on our musics

@drbaruti

Жыл бұрын

Truth Truth every bit of this Truth

@ax2643

Жыл бұрын

As a member of the diaspora, this is an underated comment

@weirdwilliam8500

11 ай бұрын

I'm some random white guy and I think I'm responsible for like 30 views by now.

I don't know what it is about kora music that makes me emotional, but man, this stuff gets me deep. Reminds me of the liminal space when you're laying on the grass in summer, eyes almost shut, getting impressions of sunlight dancing. And a journey. All mixed in together. Just beautiful.

@lunalea1250

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, u have experience some of the great joys in life! 🏝☮💖

@jhoigaar

Жыл бұрын

I can identify with that laying on the grass feeling. It is so ethereal.

@regand7830

Жыл бұрын

I felt the same way when I heard it as a teenager. Ethereal. And there was a documentary about how OLD this music is! That Sona Jobarteh broke the gender ceiling, is remarkable. This world should NEVER hold girls and women back from anything!!

@omzy8700

Жыл бұрын

@@regand7830 kora and the type of music is a very old tradition,probably at 1000 years old tradition it comes from the mali empire which at the pinnacle had the richest person in history.

@user-ic9mo7bn3z

9 ай бұрын

​To Great ❤❤❤❤RAa

Without you Guys life in the Manding Empire would have been meaningless. Thanks Griots of Mali in large.

Incredibly beautiful. Two kora masters transmitting some of the most breathtaking music ever heard by the human ear.

@syneedapenland6441

3 жыл бұрын

It’s music for the GODs💓✨💓

@suzan7158

3 жыл бұрын

👍👍💙❤️💜

@mamadoumankou4410

3 жыл бұрын

Jgyti

@vanessapareja-diaz2494

7 күн бұрын

Beautifully said ❤

RIP Toumani Diabete - Sona Jobarteh's uncle, both from 2 of the greatly revered griot Kora families from West Africa, carrying the tradition of this amazing music from father to son for 1420 years in Toumani's family .

South Africa approves,,, its not the amount of vocals in a song, its where you place them,,,, thanks sister Sona and brother Ballake for blessing my soul,,,

@kagisolekalakala7437

3 жыл бұрын

We are indeed approving the beautiful Africa

@abdourahmanely627

3 жыл бұрын

Enkossi kkulu...👏

This music is ancient, it's universal, and people around the globe where ever they from will understand the zone of this music, the meditative state.

Absolutely beautiful, breathtaking, soul-touching. Can't we all love each other, live in peace, & listen to this amazing music? Peace & love to all who read this.

@jeanjacquesvovor8918

8 ай бұрын

Cynthia reeves ,your people are doing the hatred and the persecution not us Africans.

😘 Africa has so much to.share with the world. I love 💘

I don't understand what they are saying but I can hear the Kora speaking to me. It's soul soothing. Music is indeed a universal language.

This needs to be an hour long!

Sounds from the motherland

So great to see you do it together. God and our Ancestors bless you for the Heritage.

I have so fallen in love with the Kora and this talented musician, Sona and Ballake is wonderful too. Thank you so much for this gift of performing together. Truly a gift from God!!

Sister Sona Jobarteh as Gambian African am always proud of you. The 21 strings of a Kora instrument can nourish a soul within seconds

@olikah4667

6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

Am from 🇪🇹Ethiopia and i don't understand the message but i love it 🤗🤗

I'm so proud to be a mandingo.we should all be proud of our mandingos griots and artistes.

@maxxmabemwe4859

3 жыл бұрын

Mandinka and Djeli. the Proper name for the Mandinka people is Mandinka, the proper title for the Dogon keeper of Dogon history is Djeli. Mandingo is the European bastardization of the name Mandinka, and Griot is the French term for Djeli. Something is always lost in translation, and that is why the original should always be used.

@francmittelo6731

3 жыл бұрын

What does racism have to do with the music?

@suzan7158

3 жыл бұрын

🖤💜🧡❤️👍

@Hargeysa

3 жыл бұрын

@@suzan7158 love your name, r u from Somalia?

@suzan7158

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hargeysa from Syria 🇸🇾 and thank you really 😊

Magnifique, enivrant, féérique. Merci d'avoir bercé mon âme.

These are the descendants of ancient African scholars; Masters of the physics of the universe.

Sona, I fell in love with Kora because of you. Being me a journalist who host musical programme on my station (KSMC) Nigeria, tittled, Music Across the Globe, I find you as one of my favourite artistes I feature twice every week. Please, keep up to good work. Kora is a healer, esp that of Jorbarteh. I lov you Sona, muah!😘

Such beautiful sounds. Music is the true international language and it should remind us of the potential and incredible talent that human beings possess. I spent some years in Africa (Nigeria) as a child and long to go back someday before I die. It has always had a presence in my home, even today as I grow older here in the US.

@abucool10

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's nice to hear 🙏🏾..

@edmund6392

2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful comment. I hope you make it back home soon.

@bapujim

Жыл бұрын

Irrespective where we live..the feelings and expressions are same. We all understand the language of music.

Thanks Sona & Ballake.Wonderful 🇬🇲

Beautiful….thanks

Thank you Beautiful People to let your contemporary remember where your Music came from and how it still lives and evolves… and inspires us all who share that core somewhere deep down in our most ancient genes… My utter admiration. It quenches my thirst to see and feel Africa again. Thank you ❤️

Sona We Love You here in America (especially Florida) too.

healing music, thank you Sona and Ballaké

WHEN I LISTEN TO THIS… I SEE THE ATMOSPHERE IN THE MANDE EMPIRE KING’S PALACE… DEEP DEEP VIBRATIONS ❤💛💚

Acho que em África há um mistério que ainda precisa ser revelado, que se esconde nas suas melodias, ritmo e no olhar profundo dos africanos. Que melodia

Amazing talent and music! What a difficult instrument to play. I am just discovering this African music and instruments tonight. I am so glad that I did!! I am a singer.

Sona, seeing you in concert is one of my bucket list items. Your music is transformative.

Djourou cette corde qui nous lie en bien comme en mal, Djourou cette belle mélodie qui chante la vie dans le monde. Merci aux artistes et bravo pour l'initiative.

sounds great !!!! whoever recorded this did an amazing job !!

Music that come from a clean spirit and soul, has the power of healing! thanks for sharing!

As somebody said ,Let the ancestors speak. Proud of you

@rinahall

3 жыл бұрын

Your ancestors selled your familly to the others afrocan tribes and whites men 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@rinahall

3 жыл бұрын

Your ancestors selled your familly to the others afrocan tribes and whites men 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@bambelomlash1214

3 жыл бұрын

@@rinahall you got the abused history not used history.

@rinahall

3 жыл бұрын

@@bambelomlash1214 educate yourself and cry

@bambelomlash1214

3 жыл бұрын

@@rinahall Since born I was thought enough of my history, plus every time I checked my history I'm proud to the highest and just so you know I'm not the one you mess about history as am not messing with your yours

The sound of the Kora, the sound of Africa and blackness. Thanks

Awe inspiring

Proud to be mandingo....Greetings to all my madingo bro. & sis. ....from Guinea

@jarrisylla252

3 жыл бұрын

🇬🇲🇬🇳🇲🇱🇸🇳🇧🇫🇬🇼🇨🇮🇸🇱🇱🇷🤝❤

Honestly, I love Sona and I love Ballaké, so this is music for me and my soul. Great. Thank you.

Wow. I've never seen or heard these instruments before. This is soul soothing beautiful music. Thank you from Michigan, USA. ❤

@ijustneedmyself

3 жыл бұрын

It's gorgeous!

@okhalemary1584

3 жыл бұрын

Africa is full of people like her .... this is my traditional instrument from which guitar was copied

@bamboo-kn6vv

2 жыл бұрын

Ur welcome from Sénégal

@aandrus2169

2 жыл бұрын

@@bamboo-kn6vv are you one of these musicians?

@bamboo-kn6vv

2 жыл бұрын

@@aandrus2169 no at all ,our both families are front of ,we know each other

Beautiful! Africa, my culture, my heritage! I love the featuring❤️☺️.

Sublime ! J'en ai les larmes aux yeux !🙏🎶🎼 Merci à ces deux excellents musiciens !💐😘

Mesmerized by the music.. There are so many amazing musicians all over Africa. I was lucky enough to have lived in a couple of countries in Africa and I am infatuated with the different music styles you get to hear from different corners of the continent. Hope we get to see more African artists perform here in India, cos the music which comes from all over Africa is simply Magic. Lots of love to you guys for coming up with such lovely songs. :)

Cool ✊

This is classical African music; no written down notes but what the soul spontaneously feels while maintaining the rythm constant.

Ive never heard of this type of instrument or it sound .. I am mesmerized and amazed at its complexity... its sound and the vocals of the Blessed musicians are incredible.

Gorgeous!

Two peaceful musicians, two blissful koras and one lovely voice ☀️🌈💜☀️

Maravillosa música. Verdaderamente te llega al corazón. Conmueve profundamente. ❤️🇦🇷

According to my father the kora instrument was not touched nor played by women, however, Sona has defied the myth and she is so good on this

Whenever I’m over stressed, I can always count on Sona to bring my BEing back into Harmony 🧘🏽‍♀️🌌💓🖤✨🖤💓🌌🧘🏽‍♀️ and to see two Great Masters of their craft creating music, meant for the GODs, reminds me that we are natural healers ✨🖤✨

@elepheriakarageorgis9177

3 жыл бұрын

Hawthorne 21.10 6#4#2 22.34 3#5#6

@ylimerivers

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. Pure Joy. 💜💜💜

@seedyconteh3607

3 жыл бұрын

We are in the same country I no her very well

This wonderful music with the beautiful winter scenery outside of my window, brought a tear to me eye.

fier de toi pour tout ce que tu représente culturellement pour notre chère Afrique

@croquignol9556

3 жыл бұрын

AFRIQUE, MON AFRIQUE..... 💜💙💜

@bangalykourouma694

3 жыл бұрын

Tu es la meilleure

@flaviosousapalmafilho2054

2 жыл бұрын

Sona surreelle!

Esta música africana me llega al alma me hace reflexionar me hace pensar que un día nací en el Continente equivocado soy chilena vivo en América pero mi corazón es de África🇨🇱

@gabrielaperaltasoto6052

3 жыл бұрын

Muchas gracias por leer el mensaje para mí es un honor como chilena responderle a un hermano africano Muchas gracias que el cielo los bendiga

@jpaultelchannel1702

11 ай бұрын

Ven a visitar... Ven a visitar y luego descúbrelo.

The Honey of Ear....i Like Sonna unbelievbly

This stirs me to tears … tears of joy …such an exquisite expression of beauty, Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou 🙏🥰

🎼🪄✨Wow, so beautiful...thank you both...much love from NYC, Foxy🌬️💨🌹🎶🌹🎵✨🕶️

I had the pleaser to meet and dine with this lovely and friendly Woman in Luanda - Angola. What a fantastic show, that I will never forget!!!

@dandamuxima

3 жыл бұрын

U r a lucky guy 😃

Sublime musique, à inscrire au patrimoine de l’humanité.

I love this music this makes me happy thanks to my Africa

Pelo amor de deus que coisa mais linda, lagrimas caem sem esforço, todo respeito aos meus ancestrais africanos 🙌✨🇧🇷

My ancestors left Africa a few million years ago but kora is one of my favourite instruments.

So awesome. I wanted this to go for 20-30 minutes

My best motivation. Is kora 💪🏿 I am mandinko and am proud of it❤

Thank you my African family... 🖤

Difficult to describe how good this music is. I have listened to it so many times; and yet, it never gets old. it transcends the decades....

Thank you. Your music brings a unique warmth to my heart and soul in a world that is increasingly growing cold and madder by the day. 🌞

Absolutely stunning! So peaceful and heart touching.

Je me vois courir dans les herbes blondes et sèches, le soleil brûlant faisant danser la lumière, les rires des enfants, le bruissement de l'air dans les arbres. Merci

This is music that speaks to the soul! Thank you for shining your light!

C'est magnifique 🇨🇲🇬🇦

Unbelievably Beautiful!!! ❤❤

Just take me away already... this music is transcendent, I don't care where you come from but its just pure and you would love it regardless 👇

Le genre de musique qui prend ton âme l'espace d'un instant et la fait voyager. Magique !

Fluye la magia del cosmos y no tiene fin

HOW GIFTED! HOW S-P-E-C-I-A-L! YEAH! WANNA SEE YOU!

When it comes to kora Malians are the 🏆!!!

Poetic, soulful and sublime

MUSIC IS FREQUENCY PROGRAMMING. EMOTIONS ARE THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL. ONE'S SOUL IS THE SOFTWARE FOR EXPRESSION. EMOTIONS EMIT A FREQUENCY CALLED FEELINGS. FEELINGS ARE THE LANGUAGE OF FREQUENCY.

Merci adore la musique ethno, mais la musique malienne reste une voie pour la musique authentique et céleste 🌴🌴

My daughter Naya Akanji sent the link to this masterpiece to me. It was great listening to the 🎵 music.

#Sona JOBARTEH is 💞The Queen of AFRICAN MUSIC 🎼

Just amazing ! I know now how John Lee Hooker was so '' inspiré ''

beatiful melody

❤❤❤❤çok güzelsiniz.Sizi seviyorum

Man I'm out of words to describe what im feeling listening to this instrument and the singing. So emotional!!! Kind of story telling. I now have a favourite instrument now

Male & Female Balance ...working together so beautifully.🤩

@loidzzsam2570

3 жыл бұрын

The energies😍😍😍 this shows what life would be like IF it was balanced.

I like this woman too much she could be a sister or a friend she is incredibly gifted

Gracias!

Hello like nice video Thank You I am Turkey City İstanbul

Επανέρχομαι και απολαμβάνω 😍

Quels artistes !

Intoxicating - can’t pull myself away

What a beautiful sound" so full of meaning ,and uplifting" even if I'm lost in translation ❤️

J'adore vraiment ce que tu fais avec la kora ♥♥♥🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮

I love sona jobreth

I watched your interview on 60 minutes. your music makes me feel good.

Sona & Ballaké ! Divin moment ❤️ thanks 🎶