Kora artists Sona launches her new album FASIYA

Sona Jobarteh with her seven-piece band had the entire venue singing and dancing as she played the kora as well as the guitar to emulate the sound of an African lute and sang in various west africa languages including fulani.

The new album follows the release of "Motherland: The Score" for the multi-award winning film Motherland, a film directed by Owen ‘Alik Shahadah.

Sona, a singer, producer, film composer and multi-instrumentalist, born and raised in London attended the Royal College of Music where she studied cello, piano and harpsichord,she is the first female Kora virtuoso from the prestigious West African Jobarteh Griot family, coming from a long line of hereditary musicians.

She is is the granddaughter of the master Griot Amadu Bansang Jobarteh and cousin to the celebrated Kora maestro Toumani Diabaté from Mali, West Africa.

London,16 June 2011