Baaba Maal

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Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. His father was a fieldhand and, as such, Baaba Maal was expected to become a fieldhand as well. However, Baaba Maal devoted himself to learning music from his mother and from his school's headmaster. He went on to study music at the university in Dakar before leaving for postgraduate studies on a scholarship at Beaux-Arts in Paris. He has become quite famous in Africa. He is the most internationally famous musician from Senegal, except perhaps Yossou N'Dour. Baaba is also the foremost promoter of the traditions of the Pulaar speaking peoples who live on either side of the Senegal River in the ancient Senegalese kingdom of Futa Tooro

Incomplete discography

• Djam Leelii (with Mansour Seck)
• Baayo
• Lam Tooro
• Nomad Soul
• Firin' in Fouta
• Missing You (Mi Yeewnii)

Import releases

• Jombaajo
• Ngalanka
• Ndilane

External links

• [Official site]
• [African Music Encyclopedia entry]
• [Afropop.org entry]
• [Info page at WorldBeatPlanet]

 

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