Amadou Bagayoko, a little guitarist and composer who, with her husband, singer Mariam Doumbia, formed Amadou & Mariam, inventing a wide accessible sound that made fans of people around the world who otherwise knew about Africa music, died on Friday in Bamak, Mali’s Capital. He was 70 years old.

His death was announced by the Malian government, which did not create the cause. He and Mrs. Doumbia lived in Bamak.

In the late 2000s and early 2010s Amadou & Mariam were regularly described as the most successful African music act of a new century.

Mr. Bagayoko, who grew up by listening to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd, called their “Afro-rock” sound, and the group regularly combined their solo for winding guitars with, for example, by hitting the West African Djembe drum.

Still, the music music also developed consistently. Their hit hit, 2005 album “Dimanche à Bamako”, Chatty spoke aside, Sirens, The Hubbub of Crowds – City Sounds turned into melodies. Their 2008 album “Welcome to Mali”, vice versa, accepted the electronic style funk, opening a song, “Otherwise”, In which Damon Albarn from Arty Hip-Hop Group Gorillaz.

What was consistent was a sweet, graceful sound that still had the power to build crescendos, and Alto achieved a clear, pleasant resonance of Mrs. Doumbia for a rich orchestration.

Mr. Bagayako sang. The texts of the couple were mainly in the French and West African language of Bambar. Politics inspired some of their songs, but often identified local topics that could have wider attraction, as in their 2004 song “Senegal fast food.”

Amadou and Mariam were often grouped in Muchly deridated genre Known as “World Music”, but no matter what the province of this term can be guilty, this was a time when many young Americans came to love African musicians, including colleague Malenians Ali Farka Touré and Toumani Diabaté, who died last year. Roughly at the same time, American stars like Bonnie Raitt and Ry Cooder made pilgrimages Bamako to get stuck with local artists.

“What they hear about classic rock and real music service,” Jake Shears, leading American Indie pop band Scissor Sisters, said the Times 2012 “Now with all the bands, when you play live, everyone happens to support songs. Everyone is working with the net. They are a real rock band in old school.”

The origin of that training and skill lay in the background of money. Each of their lives largely depended on music. Mr. Bagayoko and Mrs. Dumbia were born with Vid, but both became blind as children because of poor medical treatment.

Amadou Bagayako was born on October 24, 1954 in Bamak. His father Ibrahima Bagayogo was a beetroot instructor, and his mother Mariam Diarra devoted himself to raising their 14 children.

Amadou was born milk eyes, with cataracts, but it is blind only gradually. Later, the doctor told his family that the real problem of the boy was actually a trahoma infection too late. In Mali it was also impossible to get a corneal transplant, which could save Amadou’s vision.

“In those days,” Mr. Bagayako wrote in the common memoir of the couple, “Far from the Light of the Day” (2010), “Being blind was the worst thing that could happen to you in Malinski society. It was that there was a beggar.”

Of the practical processions, Amadou got used to “drowning his sadness in music,” he wrote. He became good enough in the flute and accordion to ask him the teacher to play the Malian anthem after teaching every day.

The idea formed in his young mind. “Music,” he wrote, “would be my passage from poverty.”

For about 13 years, Uncle began teaching Amadou Guitar. He soon realized that he could distinguish guitars from the manufacturer based on sound.

Long ago, Amadou was playing with Les Ambassadeurs du Motel, one of the most famous music groups of Mali. He also started attending the Institute for a Young Blind, Mali’s first modern school for the blind. The teenage girl was very appreciated there for her singing: Mariam Dombia. She was blind from 5 years from untreated measles.

Mariam showed Amadou Lyrics that she wrote about the sharp reality disabled in Mali. Amadou began to set up his songs with music.

They played together as friends and associates for years. 1980, dancing at the party, Mr. Bagayako stated that his true feelings for her were romantic. Mrs. Dumbia kissed him. “I felt the door of paradise open,” he wrote in their memoir.

Local news included the marriage of two valued blind musicians. The promoters of concerts from nearby African states began to give them offers. They expanded their repertoire from their native Bambare to other languages ​​like Tuareg and Senufo. The fans called them a blind couple from Mali.

Until 1996, they managed to move to Paris and record an album there, now singing in French. That led to “I mean you”, their first hit outside of Africa.

Music Globus-Totter Manu Chao produced “Dimanche à Bamako” and helped write texts for some of his songs. The album has sold more than 100,000 copies in France in just about a week and has become an international hit.

The couple received a reputable charge at American music festivals like Bonnaroo and All Points West, along with bands popular in the mid-2000s such as Radiohead, Kings of Leon and Animal Collective.

In 2009, they opened on several shows of the Coldplay stadium. In the same year, they performed at the concert in honor of President Barack Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Award and met Mr. Obama himself.

Their production ended in the 2010s and 2020s, but they performed together as recently as last summer during the Paralympic Games in Paris. From Sunday, Their website still specified dates for a European tour in May and June.

Mr. Bagayako and Mrs. Doumbia had three children, including the son of Sam, who is also a musician, as well as several grandchildren. The complete information about the survivors was not immediately available.

One of the last international couple’s hits was “Bofou Safe”, Published in 2017. He had a paradox that seemed appropriate for the couple who had devoted his life to music so much. The texts admonish the young man to focus less on dance and more work – but cheerful, Groovy Beat provokes you not to dance.