![]() ![]() Lesley Stahl: What I think about with you is that you have broken tradition. You get that feeling of royalty, you get that feeling of, you know, something that you're so proud about. Sona Jobarteh: This is music when you hear it, it still, to this day, carries this feeling of the empire at its- at its greatest. At 39, she has become one of the foremost kora players in the world, performing with her band across Europe, West Africa, and here in the United States, as we saw in one packed theater outside Boston. With its 21 strings, played by just four fingers, two on each hand, it has a sound both foreign and familiar. Take a listen, as we did, to Sona Jobarteh as she plays the kora. In her performances around the world, and in her work off-stage, she says she is keeping tradition alive through the very act of breaking it. ![]() After hundreds of years of men, she is the first woman to master the kora. The daughter of a Gambian father and a British mother. Sona Jobarteh was born into one of those families, called griots. It's a string instrument from West Africa, part of a musical tradition that dates back to a 13th century empire and has been passed down strictly from father to son, man to man, in a special set of families ever since. Tonight, we want to introduce you to a musician named Sona Jobarteh, who introduced us to the beautiful sound and story of a centuries-old instrument called the kora. Sona Jobarteh: The 60 Minutes Interview 13:38
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