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Bembeya Jazz National is a Guinean musical group that gained fame in the 1960s for their infectious Afropop rhythms. Featuring Sekou ("Diamond Fingers") Diabaté, who grew up in a traditional griot musical family, the band won over fans in Conakry, Guinea's capital city, during the heady days of that country's newfound independence. Bembeya Jazz fell onto harder times in the 1980s and disbanded for a number of years. However, it reformed in the late 1990s and has toured Europe and North America in the early 2000s.
