| Background: | person |
| Sidiki Diabaté | |
| Birth Place: | Bamako, Mali |
Sidiki Diabaté is a Malian kora player, singer, and music producer born in 1992 in Bamako. He is the son of kora player Toumani Diabaté and grandson of his namesake, Sidiki Diabaté.[1] [2] Diabaté belongs to the 77th generation of musicians in a long family tradition of griots, his family being primarily kora players. His father's cousin Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora player to come from a griot family. His uncle Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté is also a kora player.
Diabaté was arrested on 24 September 2020 on the count of assault of an ex-girlfriend.[3]