[4] The instrument is an important element of the Mandingo peoples in West Africa and their playing is reserved only to certain families called griot.

[8] In 2002 she performed in Vienna with the renowned jazz vocalist Cleveland Watkiss, also forming a part of his support act for Cassandra Wilson at the Barbican in London.

[4] Jobarteh is a regular member of her brother Tunde Jegede's African Classical Music Ensemble, which has toured England, Ireland, Africa and parts of the Caribbean.

She also works with the distinguished spoken-word artist HKB FiNN as an instrumentalist, co-writer, singer and producer.

For her solo work, such as her performance at the 2014 Festival Internacional Cervantino, in Mexico, she has a band with members Kari Bannermann on electric guitar, Kyazi Lugangira on acoustic guitar, Mamadou Sarr on African percussions (as calabash or djembe), Alexander Boateng on drums and Andi McLean on the bass.

She worked with her father, Sanjally Jobarteh, in setting up a formal music school in the Gambia, named after her famous grandfather.

While much of Jobarteh's score drew primarily on the West African griot tradition, she also had to reinvent it to accommodate for the demands of the visual realm.

This instrument is a cross between the kora and the Donso Ngoni, expanding the tonality and mood of the African musical sonic.

[1] Spending significant time in both England and the Gambia,[1] she blends different musical styles, from both the European and West African traditions.