Artist: Baaba Maal
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Baayo
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
A whizz in his native Senegal, spiritual crop up vocalizer Baaba Maal was not tied born to be a performing creative person -- in West African culture, custom dictates that the ancient griot caste must raise the singers and storytellers, and Maal was natural in the city of Podor in 1953 into the fisherman's caste. Despite his parents' insistence that he become a lawyer, he grew up surrounded by medicine, gripping both the traditional sounds of the neighborhood as well as American R&B and person, later discovering jazz and vapors. As a adolescent Maal moved to Dakar, connection the 70-piece orchestra Asly Fouta and teaming with his guitar player friend Mansour Seck to form the group Lasli Fouta; during the early eighties, the duette as well spent several years in Paris, where they recorded the 1984 record album Djam Leelii. Upon reversive to Senegal, Maal formed the group Daande Lenol -- literally, "The Voice of the Race" -- and began honing a highly distinctive sound fusing traditional African music with elements of pop and reggae; in 1988 he issued the LP Wango, the first in a series of highly successful albums which as intimately included 1991's Baayo, 1992's Thresh Toro and 1994's Firin' in Fouta. In 1998, Maal released Nomad Soul; the first transcription on Chris Blackwell's raw Palm Pictures tag, it featured cameos by Brian Eno, Howie B. and others. A succession of records followed on Palm during the subsequent trey eld.
