Like their chief competition, the Rail Band, Les Ambassadeurs are a sponsored group who work for a bar-hotel in Bamako. Unlike the Rail Band, Les Ambassadeurs are far more indebted to western musical styles, and alongside the traditional pieces play a variety of rumbas, foxtrots, and European ballads. Some time after their formation, the group renamed themselves the Ambassadeurs Internationaux before, finally, breaking up in the mid-'80s. ~ Leon Jackson, Rovi