Born in the Gambia, West Africa. Grandson of Alhaji Bai Konte, son of Amadou Bansang Jobarteh, nephew of Malamini Jobarteh and Dembo Konte. I guess that's the way we do it there. I was not, at first, a kora player and even today my instrument is one I got after I'd left the land of my birth, The Gambia, and settled in Denmark. No, I learned my music sitting at the feet of my uncles while playing the calabash. Today in Denmark, I have found a home and, I believe, Denmark has found me. Over the two-year period it took to record this album, various musicians passed through Copenhagen and agreed to play. In the early hours of the morning after a gig and some schnapps, you have Linley Marthe, the last bassist to work with Joe Zawinul, performing a fabulous solo on “Karang Folo”; or Shashank Subrinayam, sometimes flautist with John McLaughlin, recording his exquisite flourishes on “Nkanakele”; or Etienne Mbape who did it just for fun because he liked the music; or Maria and Marie-Line Marolany, whom I first saw singing for Salif Keita … the list goes on. But really it's the support of long-term friends and band members, Preben Carlsen on guitar, Nana Osibio on bass and Salieu Dibba on percussion that keep it real. We play. Why not?