"Honestly, I don't immediately gravitate toward kora because there's a sameness to most of it. but I can hear something in your kora playing that goes somewhere very imaginative, something that i take as a mirror of your inventive bugarabu playing."
- Jon Hassell, Trumpeter
"You performed a beautiful show that was not only culturally rich but also musically interesting."
- Godfrey Palaia @ Lincoln Center
"A griot , one’s family are musicians and storytellers must be consistent with the groove and memorize all the rhythmic figures quickly because nothing is written down. It’s all about the Oral tradition"