Sona Jobarteh - Jarabi 

😭😭 This is the type of music that should be played in our radios.... true African music😍😍😍

She speaks about love "jarabi" Mean love sweetheart, darling for thoses who are asking. Peace from 🇸🇳🇸🇳✌🏽

Thumbs up from Morocco 🇲🇦, beautiful music 🎶. Love u mama Africa 😄

Très beau même trop, tombé par hasard sur cet artiste et cette musique. ❤❤❤ Merci 🎉

I first discovered the kora when I heard Toumani Diabaté play this tune during an episode of Michael Palin's "Sahara" when he travelled through Senegal and into Mali and met up with Toumani in Bamako.

I love Africa and all their people. Their success is my success. From America, we are cousins.

Very talented..Much love for Sona and her band...From Nairobi

Amazing, I have discovered magic African music I will never forget this moment thanks you Sona

Great touchy sound 😍

Only ppl with pure soul can love this angelic music made by real humans played by natural instruments

Je suis en clinique... Ça fait du bien d'entendre Sona et son jarabi... Une femme ici, m'a dit que cela veut dire Amour

Chanteuse et musicienne admirable. Les musiciens qui l'accompagnent ne déméritent pas bien sûr mais Elle a quelque chose de plus dans la voix qui est très touchant. Magnifique

Yeah this song will be on repeat for the rest of my life on this earth.

Much love from Dominica!!!

Sona tu ne pas seulement chanteuse mais une génie, tes chansons me fais plaisir à chaque fois que je l'écoutent.

After listening to this song, i decided to name my daughter "djarabi", word which actually means "beloved". Sona you are divine. Much love from Cameroon 🇨🇲❤️

Pure magic! Timeless Mandigo song! So happy that she broke with tradition and is one of the first mandigo women to play the Kora,,, Thank you Sona

I stumbled on your music and instrument. So powerful. I support 100%. if u upload your tour visit and I am pretty sure one day I will watch you and show my kids the invaluableness of what ur are doing. I appreciate you thank you for this music.

I am from Zimbabwe, I fell in love with the lady from the start, she looks exactly like my Mom’s Sister.❤️

she is so so fantabsic-hope she Comes to switzerland

Vibes and flow 5/5!!

Quelle grâce quelle pureté et quelle nostalgie ! sacrée sona...Merci

What for a peaceful and magical song

So Nice I would Love to Play my Sax and Flute with her on LP. or CD as we say. I know her music down to a science

How am I just discovering this amazing artist. I'm adding her to my playlists as we speak. Loved this and Gambia. Any other artists i am missing out on. Please reply below. MACHEL AND calypso rose are LIFE.😍

La musique et la voix m'ont fait pleurer sans savoir les paroles. Admirable.

This song and Sona playing the kora and singing just gives me chills and also warm feelings all over. So happy to have come across this. Love from Vancouver, BC, Canada 🇨🇦

This is lovely, I brought a kora back from Niamey in 1976 and I never heard one played like this! thank you

I just keep on coming back!

although I dont understand what she is saying I like the tune, real African by Africans

An Ethiopian here, what a music....!!!

Beautiful to see all. Very nice thank you sister.

I'm listening from Malawi, Southern part of Africa just by the corner of the continent...i want to know the meaning of Jarabi 🎉❤

Fantastic....so beautifull songs

if God gave football to Brazil, music is given to Mali

I love Africa.

Gorgeous, everything about this!

I love Africa's music

C’est très beau j’adore 😍 👍

Daughter of Afrika ❤

Vive l'Afrique one love à nous tous

Oh I cannot but admirer

Juste magnifique 🥰

Quel bel instrument et qui plus est joué par une belle femme ! Africa allways in my heart...

Musica fantástica dessa mulher e seus acompanhante. Não entendo nada da letra or suposto, mas a melodia a voz o arranjo me inebriam de doçura.

Toujours au top

Magnífica adoro esta cantora toca muito bem ela é demais

That was beautiful! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Amazing. Love West Africa

Sublime ❤️🇫🇷

Keep this going on! Please there are others too who want something to happen with their lives.

Isso é muito lindo. Gostei demais! Parabéns!

bella y hermosa musica del alma de africa

Linda música

Reposant.voic profonde

Heavenly.

beautiful

wow shes very good

fière d'être manden ❤❤❤

Sweet mother of oh my so freaking sweet 💕

Whew! Exquisite.

I've got a african brother ( Basotho ) , from Lesotho. Farewell Brother

Super cool

Love u my AFRICA to death 😔..I will be there for you no one will steal you from me.

Cor a vu nu s♥️🧠🌊

Biutifol woman

Ça me fait penser à kirikou

2020 validé

Ehetes Yony Kevin?? 🤠

good

The magic of the internet allows a jamaican living in canada to be transported back to the homeland by this beautiful music played by these talented musicians.

Listening in 2020! Being African is such a blessing. The diversity of our talents is such a wonder, i love sona and her music. Much love from Kenya🇰🇪

Le Cœur des hommes est relié par les instruments et la musique, des langues universelles comprises par tout le monde, je suis né en France, je suis originaire de la Turquie et j'écoute cette fabuleuse musique, qui est une histoire, avec une chanteuse qui est aussi musicienne et des musiciens extraordinaire, j'écoute et mon cœur s'apaise, bonjour de France à tout les mélomanes, que le Seigneur vous bénisse mes amis...

Listening From Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. Beautiful music. Proud to be an African. This music is taking me back to my ancestral home. Love the Kora sounds so much better than a harp in fact no comparison.

One of the bests songs I've already heard. It touched all my body and soul. Greetings from Brazil ♥️

I cannot find the words to describe how this beautiful music stirs something deep in my soul, like a soothing balm to my very bones. It is “heaven” and “home” rolled into one. May God continue to bless Sona Jobarteh, an honored griot, and the talented musicians who accompany her to create these sacred sounds that seem to transcend time and space.

This West African music culture is addictive! It's from the ❤️ of Africa & Africa is the 💛 of Mother Earth! That's why so many people 🌍 from all around 💚 love & feel it 🌻✌🏻😎

I haven't even begun to scratch the surface of African culture. I'm 54 years old, reading "Africa is not a country" (which makes me very ashamed of the misdeeds of my Dutch colonizing forebears whose crimes can never be redeemed), listening to Fatoumata Diawara and now this wonderful artist. One lifespan is not nearly enough to comprehend the cultural riches of a wondrous continent about which I have been wrongly taught in my youth that "poor people live there". I am ashamed for not having looked beyond such cliches sooner and yet, I'm in awe of the beauty that I find. ❤

I’am Tunisian I don’t understand a word but I really love Sona’s voice she’s amazing !! I hope I will visit Gambia one day ! Keep it up

Уже пару лет смотрю и слушаю Сону Джобарте в восхищением к ее творчеству... Чеченская республика.👍👍👍

Here's a beautiful description of one of the deeper meanings of this beautiful song from Mali; this love song "Jarabi, from a FB post by Sarah le Kali on Wednesday, October 31, 2012...thanks Sarah! JARABI Most Kora songs are very formal and connected with some piece of history and cultural root of Mende tradition; Jarabi is an exception. However, Jarabi (meaning "Beloved"), is among the most popular of Kora songs. Originally composed shortly after the independence of the Mali Federation -- now divided as Senegal, Gambia and Mali -- Jarabi was meant to capture the new national spirit of renaissance. The government supported a return to traditional arts and cultural expressions of the many people of the region. In this new environment, Jarabi was born, has become and remains the single most popular Kora piece to date. When the French were forced to leave they offered Mali the option of remaining a common wealth under the French system; the people, so vexed by the brutality of French occupation, wanted only complete independence. Infuriated, Charles Du Gaulle order the country stripped of everything. Buildings were destroyed and infrastructure was rent a sunder. The people found themselves with far less than what they had before colonization and have been recovering ever sense. Composed in this time, Jarabi is a love song which, like most African love songs from this period, is intended as a metaphor for the love of the country, it's culture, and it's people. During colonial times, such love songs would be infused with messages through metaphors meant to enjoin the beleaguered with hope and resolve...

Sick and jealous people giving thumbs down bec they can never be successful at anything in this world. Everything about this woman is heavenly beautiful.

This song makes me proud to be African

The drummer is from Ghana and the guitarist is from Nigeria. Sona from Gambia. Nice this african trio. Love to and from africa!

I am from Mali, we are the same people. Thanks

I am Somali and I just found this beoutifull African Queen with her amazing voice and amazing music. I can't stop listening to her .

IF I'M EVER IN A COMA,PLAY THIS FOR ME....I WILL WAKE UP

Queen Sona Jobarteh I am proud of you... Much love from Angola... 🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴🇦🇴

I'm from another continent, speaking other language but this music touched my heart.

This sent shivers deep in my soul and brought tears to my eyes. We need more music like this, pure energy and genuineness. Hats off

10 seconds in; and I was already in heaven. Greetings and love from South Africa

❣️Love from Denmark (Scandinavia) Heavenly song 🎶

This is so beautiful in many ways. 💜 God bless africa.

Qui écoute ça en 2021 !!!Que ça me fait du bien d’écouter cet chanson mandingue .... que de douceur et grâce ça m’apaise énormément merci 🙏❤️❤️❤️

who da fuck dislikes this I mean really

I'm a dominican that fills 100% african and I'm more convinced of my roots after listening to this beatiful music

Não entendo nada do que ela diz na música mas musicalidade é perfeita. Não há duvida que a musica nasceu em África. Sona Jorbateh traduz perfeitamente os valores culturais da musica africana. É simplesmente fenomenal, inspirador, sublime... define perfeitamente o conceito de música. Parabéns! De Moçambique

Every time I listen to you Dr Sona I feel like crying 😢. You make me envision what African would have been if not for corrupt leaders who have no empathy n love for Africa and Africans 😢😢

Greetings from the Saudi Arabia. This piece of heaven is what drives me to explore all the beauty our world can offer. Bless you Sona Jobarteh and the rest of this amazing trio.

Come to korea i want you to be able to share your beautiful music for korean people. Thanks.