Baaba Maal

See also: Baba

Baaba Maal (or Baba Maal ) is a singer guitarist Senegal board of origin toucoulor.

Biography

He was born in 1953 on banks from the river Senegal, with Podor in the area of the Fouta in the north of the Senegal, in a family of fishermen.

He learns how to play of the Kora and various traditional instruments within the group Asly Fouta, before furrowing the West Africa with his friend Griot and blind man Mansour Seck and 70 other musicians.

After a passage to Paris where he studies the Western music with the Academy and plays with the Wandama group, it forms with Dakar in 1985 the group Daande Lenol (the voice of the people) with Mansour Seck. Daande Lenol adds to traditional sonorities and the songs pulars of the modern instruments like the keyboards and the electric guitar. They record Wango in 1988 and Djam Leeli .

A round in Europe in 1990 the fact of knowing Peter Gabriel which will make it take part in its album Passion . Of 1990 with 1993, Baaba Maal records Taara , Baayo and Lam Toro , three albums which bring a recognition to Europe to him.

But world success arrives in 1994 with Firin' in Fouta and African Woman titrates it.

During three years it connects the world tours, of which the first part of Santana in 1996 with the stage of Wembley in England, before recording Drunk NOMAD in 1998.

Its last album Missing You (Semi Yeewnii) in 2001 is recorded close to Dakar and joins again with more traditional sonorities.

Great voice of Africa, its engagement largely exceeds the musical framework since it is today representing Programme of the United Nations for the development (UNDP). This song (?) milked evils inflicted by the large political leaders and of the recognition which one owes in Africa for the cultural influence that it all over the world has.

Discography

  • 1988 : Wengo
  • 1989 : Djam Leeli
  • 1990 : Taara
  • 1991 : Baayo
  • 1993 : Lam Toro
  • 1994 : Firin' in Fouta
  • 1998: Souka Nayo
  • 1998 : Drunk NOMAD
  • 1999: Jombaajo
  • 2000 : Live At the Royal Festival Hall
  • 2001: Missing You (Semi Yeewnii)
  • 2003: The Best off The Early Years

See too

External bonds

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