Keita will participate in academic seminars and present his work publicly.
All events are free and open to the public.
The film documents Keita's music and the key events in his life. Broadway Salif Keita's music blends together the traditional griot music of his Malian childhood with other West African influences from Guinea, the Ivory Coast, and Senegal, along with influences from Cuba, Spain, and Portugal, and an unmistakably overall Islamic sound. Besides the aforementioned guitar, organ, and sax, Keita's sound also includes traditional African instruments such as the kora, balafon, and djembe, often synthesized and sampled. Keita was born in 1949. He is a direct descendent of Sundiata Keita, the Mandinka warrior king who founded the Malian empire in the 13th century.