SUNTOU SUSSO

Multi instrumentalist, Kora player, producer, composer, teacher and song-writer. Born a Griot in a 700-year old tradition, the Kora - harp-lute with 22 strings - is unique to the Griots of the Mandinka people. Griots have a unique societal role as oral historians, transmitting and preserving a people’s culture through the generations in song, music and poetry.