Les Go, or Les Go de Kotéba, is a group of singers and dancers formed in 1993 in Abidjan at the instigation of Souleymane Koly. Its members sing in Malinke, Bété, Songhai, Bambara, Khassonke, Nouchi and French.
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Les Go de Kotéba, also known as the three Go, is a group of singers and dancers formed in 1993 in Abidjan at the instigation of Souleymane Koly.
The Go sing in Malinke, Bété, Songhai, Bambara, Khassonke, Nouchi and French.
It was originally a trio. The members were Niama Kanté, Maaté Keïta and Awa Sangho, respectively Guinean, Ivorian-Guinean and Malian. The group was reduced to a duo when Niama Kanté left for Japan.
From 2011, Awa Sangho pursued a solo career in New York, releasing the album Ala Ta in 2016.
The group's name comes from Go — a distortion of "girl" in Nouchi — and from the Kotéba ensemble of Abidjan, a traditional Mandingo theatre troupe founded in 1974 by Souleymane Koly. Traditional kotéba is a satirical theatrical genre, sung and danced, of Malian origin. The Bambara terms koté, meaning "snail", and ba, meaning "big", refer to the traditional spiral staging used in kotéba. Souleymane Koly also pointed out in 2013 that "ko o tè ban" means "nothing will ever end", in other words no truth is absolute. He also recalled that the three Go were an integral part of the Kotéba ensemble of Abidjan while pursuing their own careers as singers.
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