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HASu The day after the dying of Amadou Bagayoko, member of the Duo Amadou and Mariam, tributes are raining. The musician died on Friday April 4, 2025, in Bamako (Mali) on the age of 70 from a illness on Friday, April 4, 2025.

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“We will miss it so much. All my love in Mariam, my sister -in -law, and the whole family. She knows that I will always be there for them, ”described the French singer Matthieu Chedid in a Facebook post. The artist praised “a uncommon being and an unimaginable guitarist”.

“Amadou & Mariam are my first favorite for Mali. It was thanks to them, through Marc Antoine Moreau, that I was for the first time in this beautiful country, it was for the Paris-Bamako festival. Everything was born from there, ”says the one who regularly worked with the duo and who was soon to find them on stage.

Amadou and Mariam contributed to LAMOMALI TOTEMa collective album whose launch is scheduled for April 25, 2025. A tour orchestrated by Matthieu Chedid, within the firm of Fatoumata Diawara, Toumani and Balla Diabaté, is then deliberate.

The planetary success of Sunday in Bamako

The Franco-Spanish singer Manu Chao paid tribute to Amadou Bagayoko on his Instagram account with a photograph of himself alongside the duo. “Amadou! We will always be together … with you wherever you go. Mariam, Sam, the whole family, your pain is my pain. I love you. »Manu Chao had produced the album Sunday in Bamako In 2004. A planetary success that made the duo famous.


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The Senegalese star Youssou N’Dour expressed himself on X: “I can not even discover the fitting phrases to speak about Amadou Bagayoko who has simply left us immediately. My ideas to my expensive Mariam to whom I consider these troublesome occasions. I’ll always remember his friendship. »»

The reminiscence of the duo on the Paris Paralympic Games

On his account Xthe Minister of Culture Rachida Dati paid tribute to the group. “Amadou embodied the generosity, the dedication and the richness of French -speaking music. Last summer season, the group accompanied the ultimate extinction of the flame on the Paris Paralympic Games. They had interpreted, on the foot of the Olympic basin, the track I got here to inform you that I’m by Serge Gainsbourg.



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