Arts + Culture
Mbalax: how Senegal’s sabar drums became the country’s pop music
Mbalax is Senegal's national popular music, built on the rhythms of the Wolof sabar drums combined with guitars,…
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Music
Dreadlocks, Sufi faith and a debut produced by Youssou N’Dour: Cheikh Lô
Cheikh Lô, born in 1955 to Senegalese parents in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, played with Orchestre Volta Jazz before…
Arts + Culture
“7 Seconds” spent 16 weeks at number one in France. Its singer later became Senegal’s minister of culture
In 1994, Youssou N'Dour and Neneh Cherry released "7 Seconds", sung in Wolof, English and French. It spent…