Mahamadou has been the director of Ecole de Musique de Kirina since 2010. Nfaly Kouyaté, originally from Bamako teaches kora at Ecole de Musique de Kirina, where Boubacar Gouem, the other kora player in the band has been initiated to the instruments for a decade. Adama Diabate plays the malinke balafon, and masters the tama as well as other percussion instruments. Assetou Sissoko aka “Lagare Setou” has learned music from a very young age directly from her grandmother who discovered and cultivated her talent during years.

In July 2022, the band was invited to perform in Tamale, Ghana, home of the Bizung School of Music and Dance, created by Playing For Change Foundation. This is where the first recordings of the album Lagare Setou started. A few months later, the band traveled to the south of Morocco and performed at the Zamane Festival, organized by Joudour Sahara in M’Hamid el Ghizlane and recorded 3 addtional al songs that are featured on this very first album.