Kaito Winse

Kaito Winse comes from a Burkina Faso griot music family. From an early age he was raised in the traditions of his family in the village of Lankoué, Sourou region in the north of Burkina Faso. As a modern jeli or griot, Kaito is the message bearer for the traditions of Burkina Faso, he is the spokesperson for a singular and complex poetic universe. His powerful and bewitching voice recalls the intensity of opera technique and invites you to listen to messages that carry ancestral truths where he invokes the different popular, praising or festive rhythms through his instruments. Kaito plays multiple instruments ranging from the tama drum, the toutlé flute, the Fulani flutes, the kora and the traditional mouth bow. His music is a unique experience where musical codes shatter to find themselves at the crossroads of traditional, learned and popular music. He is now living in Brussels, Belgium.