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Syllart Records

CTL-I-0106 · Institution

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Combined Graph record U-01462 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-I-0106. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Syllart Records is an African-music record label founded in Paris in the late 1970s by Ibrahima Sylla; nearly a thousand tracks were produced directly by Sylla; Sylla died in 2013. Stored city Paris confirmed. No exact founding year is asserted (1978 appears only in unfetched snippets).

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Syllart Records is an African-music record label founded in Paris in the late 1970s by Ibrahima Sylla; nearly a thousand tracks were produced directly by Sylla; Sylla died in 2013. Stored city Paris confirmed. No exact founding year is asserted (1978 appears only in unfetched snippets).

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Syllart Records is an African-music record label founded in Paris in the late 1970s by Ibrahima Sylla; nearly a thousand tracks were produced directly by Sylla; Sylla died in 2013. Stored city Paris confirmed. No exact founding year is asserted (1978 appears only in unfetched snippets).

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