Karamo Susso is a kora player from Gambia west Africa. Growing up in a griot compound in Mali, he started playing kora as a tiny child, and was performing for large crowds before he was even big enough to hold the instrument up by himself. Fully immersed in the tradition, he learned from world-renowned players like his uncles Ballake Sissoko and Toumani Diabate. The kora is the 21-stringed harp lute of West Africa. Since his arrival in America, Karamo has played at university lecture halls and clubs with everyone from fellow world music stars to funk, jazz, and hip-hop groups. Audiences have been mesmerized and moved by his evocative music.