Here's a second interview I did over the last year for Afropop Worldwide to keep you entertained until the new season....
Born into the Cissokho family of griots (some relatives spell it Sissoko or Cissoko), it would have been a challenge for Momi Maiga to imagine himself becoming a dentist or, really, anything other than a musician growing up. Maiga received his first kora, made for him by his uncle, at the age of six. Though as a kid, he gravitated towards playing percussion, but at 18 years old, Maiga found himself in Sweden collaborating with musician Ale Möller on one his projects integrating world music with Swedish trad folk. In 2018, Maiga made his first trip to Barcelona to collaborate with a local musician through the Barcelona Music Museum. It was there he first heard the music of the legendary flamenco musician Paco de Lucia and it became his goal to fuse traditional kora with flamenco. Read more here: https://afropop.org/articles/momi-maiga-building-a-bridge-between-spain-senegal
