





The Most Famous
Singers from Mali
Trending Singers from Mali This Week
The top 10 Singers from Mali trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1

Aya Nakamura
b. 1995
Trending in French (#15) Wikipedia (4,086 views, on Apr 1).
This page contains a list of the greatest Malians Singers. The pantheon dataset contains 4,381 Singers, 7 of which were born in Mali. This makes Mali the birth place of the 77th most number of Singers behind Philippines and Chile.
Top 7 Malian Singers
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malians Singers of all time. This list of famous Malians Singers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
- #1

Ali Farka Touré
1939 - 2006
HPI 62.8938 langsMalian musician (1939–2006)
- #2

Boubacar Traoré
b. 1942
HPI 57.4115 langsMalian musician (born 1942)
- #3

Oumou Sangaré
b. 1968
HPI 52.1724 langsMalian singer
- #4

Rokia Traoré
b. 1974
HPI 49.4824 langsMalian-born singer, songwriter and guitarist
- #5

Aya Nakamura
b. 1995
HPI 48.8337 langsMalian-born French singer
- #6

Inna Modja
b. 1984
HPI 40.9621 langsMalian-French female singer and model.
- #7

Bassekou Kouyate
b. 1966
HPI 38.9014 langsBassekou Kouyate is a Malian musician, renowned for his mastery of the ngoni, a traditional West African string instrument. He is celebrated...Read moreShow less
Bassekou Kouyate is a Malian musician, renowned for his mastery of the ngoni, a traditional West African string instrument. He is celebrated for his innovative fusion of traditional Malian music with contemporary styles, particularly in his work as a solo artist and with his band Ngoni Ba.
