In fact, the very first song on the album, Wassulu Don, literally means “Wassoulou culture”. He adapted to my rhythm.“Įven if the title of the album, Timbuktu, is a homage to the city in the center of Mali that has been constantly under siege since 2012 from Jihadist attacks, Oumou Sangaré has always sung about her native soil, Wassoulou.
Pascal Danaë brought his knowledge without denaturing mine. I collaborated with Americans and with the English, while keeping my own identity. Particularly between the kamele n’goni and its distant heirs the dobro and the slide guitar, played by Pascal Danaë : “ My music, which comes from Wassolou, is traditional. An introspective opus that forges intimate sonic connections between traditional West African instruments and those linked to the history of the blues. She was recently invited by Alicia Keys for a televised duo, and the 54 year-old woman is now cited as an example by artists such as Aya Nakamuraor Beyoncé, who sampled one of her most famous songs, Diaraby Néné, for the song Mood 4 Eva on the soundtrack of the film The Lion King : The Gift in 2019.Īfter an artificial electro album, Mogoya (2017), then a magical acoustic version of the same album (2020),« Wassoulou kono » (the songbird from Wassoulou) has now released the first album on her own label, Oumsang, her twelfth album: Timbuktu. She is an international superstar who has never left her country. Indeed, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for food and agriculture, who experienced poverty and hardship as a child in Bamako, is also a business woman : she owns a hotel in Bamako and has her own brand of rice. She now supports its economy by orchestrating, for example, the Festival International Wassoulou (FIWA), a free cultural event that draws more and more people every year. Ever since her first album in 1989, Moussolou, Oumou Sangaré has been singing its rhythms. Wassoulou, her mother’s region, is the forest lung of southwest Mali. She is the feminine and feminist icon of West-African music: Oumou Sangaré, «the diva of Wassoulou », the name of the cultural zone between Mali, the Ivory Coast and what is now Guinea.
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