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The Mieruba label was co-founded by the great artist Mangala Camara, soon after his return to Mali after 20 years in France.

This immense loss of Mangala Camara, passing away in 2010 at age 50, became a clarion call for Mieruba to provide opportunities to forgotten and underappreciated ambassadors of Mandingue music, in all of its diversity, before it became too late.

Between 2010 and 2018, Mieruba-ML produced the albums of 7 musicians and groups steeped in the musical repertoire of Mali's Ségou region in particular. For some it was their first time recording in studio while others were veterans of the industry. But all of them mastered not just their own communities’ music but were part of the generation to fuse ancestral melodies and lyrics with the blues, salsa, jazz, reggae, and afrobeat from around the world.

The works of Askia Modibo, Labouzou, Tamboura Jazz, Tiowa Dembele, Zoumana Tereta, Trico Boy, Namakoro Fomba, have been brought together in the first volume of the collection alongside Mangala Camara's 'Renaissance' album, recorded just before his passing.