Rail Band and Les Ambassadeurs family tree

This "family tree" was created as an attempt to clarify the often confusing origins and cross-overs between these two seminal West African bands. Over the years both bands had many changes to their line-ups and the discographies below are a broad representation.

For more detailed discographies of these groups, please visit the Rail Band discography and the Les Ambassadeurs discography.

Compiled by Graeme Counsel, with many thanks to Flemming Harrev