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  "en": "Salif Keita — English Wikipedia"
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  "ar": "مقالة ويكيبيديا الإنجليزية عن ساليف كيتا؛ تُستخدم لوقائع الكيان فقط. تقول إنه نشأ في أسرة مسلمة ودرس في مدرسة إسلامية — وذلك خلفية أسرية لا تُستخدم شهادةً لدينه الشخصي.",
  "en": "English Wikipedia article on Salif Keita; used for entity facts only. It says he was raised in a Muslim family and went to an Islamic school — family background, not used as a personal faith attestation."
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  "title": "Salif Keita",
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  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2026,
     8,
     28
    ]
   ]
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  "publisher": "Wikipedia (English), revision 1371757390 of 28 August 2026",
  "URL": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salif_Keita",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Pointer for entity facts only (Wikipedia rule, AGENTS.md): a fact is used only where the article cites a source for it. Read in full on 25 October 2026. It gives his birth on 25 August 1949 at Djoliba, to the Keita royal family tracing descent from Sundiata Keita; his casting-out over his albinism, a sign of bad luck in Mandinka culture; the sentence 'Raised in a Muslim family, he went to an Islamic school where he was influenced by his Qur'an teacher's singing' — family background and schooling, expressly NOT used as an attestation of a personal school; his move to Bamako in 1967 and the Super Rail Band; Les Ambassadeurs (1973) and the flight to Abidjan in the mid-1970s; Mandjou (1978) and the 1976 award of Officer of Guinea's National Order of Merit by Sékou Touré; the move to Paris in 1984; Soro (1987) as the international breakthrough; the Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute concert (1988); the return to Bamako and studio; Moffou (2002); M'Bemba (2005); La Différence (2009), dedicated to the albino community, and its Best World Music award at the 2010 Victoires de la Musique; and his daughter, the paralympian Nantenin Keita. It also notes the criticism of some of his work for glossy production. No school is named for Keita himself.",
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 "updated": "2026-10-25",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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