Fanta Sacko

{{Short description|Malian musician}}

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| origin = Mali

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| genre = Bajourou

| occupation = Singer

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Fanta Sacko is a Malian musician, whose debut, self-titled LP launched the bajourou music genre. She has helped establish a female singing tradition in Mali, which makes that country unique in West Africa, where female popular musicians are not generally approved of.{{cite book|title=Africa, Europe and the Middle East|editor1=Mark Ellingham |editor2=Orla Duane |editor3=Vanessa Dowell |publisher=Rough Guides|location=London|date=November 1999|series=World music|volume=1|pages=550|isbn=1-85828-635-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gyiTOcnb2yYC&dq=%22Fanta+Sacko%22+-inpublisher%3Aicon&pg=PA550}}{{cite book|last=Gikandi|first=Simon|title=Encyclopedia of African literature|editor=Gikandi, Simon|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2003|pages=575|isbn=0-415-23019-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M73RUGbFsCYC&dq=west+africa+female+musicians+-inpublisher%3Aicon&pg=PA575|accessdate=2010-04-14}}