Biography

Amadou Bagayoko was born on October 24, 1954 in Bamako, French Sudan, French West Africa [now Bamako, Mali]. He was an actor and composer, known for The Package (2018), Lonely Planet (2024) and Where the Trail Ends (2012). He was married to Mariam Doumbia. He died on April 4, 2025 in Bamako, Mali.

After meeting in 1976, when Amadou was 21 and Mariam 18, the pair discovered they had similar tastes in music. At the start they sang songs to raise awareness of the problems facing their peers living with blindness and disabilities.

He became blind when he was 15 due to a congenital cataract.