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\u2018Toubala Kono\u2019<\/h2>\n
Cheick Tidiane Seck, a keyboard player who knew Mr. Bagayoko since the guitarist was 14, was in neighboring Ivory Coast for a concert last week when Mr. Bagayoko died.<\/p>\n
Mr. Seck opened the concert with \u201cToubala Kono,\u201d a song he wrote with Mr. Bagayoko, whom he called a \u201cbrother.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he couldn\u2019t finish performing it, he said in an interview, adding, \u201cI would have collapsed.\u201d<\/p>\n
With only a spare, reverberating guitar doing circular riffs, the song revolves around loneliness, a feeling that Mr. Seck said had haunted him since his friend\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2018Mogoya\u2019<\/h2>\n
Sam Bagayoko is the only one of Mr. Bagayoko\u2019s and Ms. Doumbia\u2019s three children who embraced a musical career. He had toured with his parents and was in Paris to organize their planned concerts in France this summer when Mr. Bagayoko died.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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His parents were especially proud of how their songs kept appealing to younger generations, he said in a telephone interview from Bamako, Mali’s capital and the family\u2019s home, where visitors were coming this week to pay tribute.<\/p>\n
His favorite song is \u201cMogoya,\u201d which he composed for his parents to perform with him. In the song, he plays the guitar with his father while his mother sings about daily life in Mali and promises that people often fail to keep.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was always an honor to play with my parents, but this was our last collaboration together,\u201d said Sam, who is 45. \u201cI will never see nor hear my father\u2019s guitar anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n