N’famady Kouyaté is a young energetic master musician from Guinea (Conakry) A talented multi-instrumentalist his modern interpretations of traditional West African Mandingue songs and rhythms with his band. N’famady’s primary instrument is the balafon – the traditional wooden xylophone, sacred to West African culture and his family heritage of the griot/djeli. In Guinea he founded ‘Les Héritiers du Mandingue’ a tradi-modern group that toured extensively in West Africa.