Sona Jobarteh is the first female kora player to come from a Griot family, as well as a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and composer from the Gambia and the UK. She was born in 1983 into one of the five principal Kora-playing Griot families from West Africa.
Sona Jobarteh ni msichana wa kwanza kupiga Kora na vifaa mbalimbali vya muziki, Kuimba, kutunga nyimbo kutoka katika familia ya Griot. Alizaliwa mwaka 1983 nchini Gambia (Afrika ya Magharibi).