Mali’s Afro-pop stars Amadou & Mariam are among the most storied – and influential – musicians to emerge from West Africa. And, in 2020, they’re leading a global Afrobeats movement, impacting everyone from Jamie xx to Drake.
Amadou Bagayoko (guitars/vocals) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals), who are both blind, met back in the mid-’70s at the Institute for the Young Blind in Mali’s capital of…
