Jaliba Kuyateh is a prolific Gambian musician born in Niamina Dankunku Village in the Central River Region of The Gambia in the year 1957. As a son of a great ‘Kora Player’, he learnt to play the Kora from his late father, Kebba Sunkung Kuyateh at a very early age. His mother the late Aja Bakoto Mbye also contributed immensely in the development of this great musician of our time. The Kuyateh’s are respected members of the Griot family, the custodians of our oral history in our communities

Jaliba was taught by his father, the art of playing Kora. His punishment for misbehaving as a small kid, was to spend an evening playing the kora alone. He was well groomed by his father and today he is Gambia’s most renowned kora player.