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by Steve Desroches

When Youssoupha Sidibe enrolled at the National Music Conservatory in Dakar about 20 years ago, he had no interest in learning a Western musical instrument.

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Youssoupha Sidibe worked as a guide there at Goree Island in his early years, and it was there that the concept evolved in him and his music to become a vehicle.

Youssoupha Sidibe's musical career began more than 20 years ago in Senegal, West Africa.

In his home country of Senegal Western music and pop culture heavily influences their modern music, and much of the rest of Africa, he says. His interests made him stand out among his classmates. He was also unique as a young student for his willingness to take early morning classes, which is when the traditional West African music courses met.

That dedication and appreciation for traditional West African culture led him to become one of the world’s most respected players of the kora, a string lute-bridge harp with a long history in Senegal and a wide reach in global music history.

Sidibe took to the kora quickly, he says.

And not just the music he could play, but what the instrument meant to his cultural heritage. In many West African cultures the kora was playe