Aly Keïta originates from the West-African Ivory Coast, and is one of the great balafon virtuosos. The balafon is an African xylophone with calabashes as resonators and it is a unique West-African melodic instrument.

When he was still just a child, the impressive musician was already creating instruments, and later he built not only a diatonic balafon, to open up the possibilities of new sounds, but also the world’s largest one in 1999. Aly Keïta merges virtuoso balafon playing – oriented towards a traditional African repertoire – with Western jazz, gentle pop and other African rhythms.