Africando Creation date: 1992
Country: Senegal
Language: Wolof
Quality: Singer / Songwriter
Genre: Salsa
Members: Médoune Diallo, Pape Serigne Seck, Nicolas Menem, James Gadiaga, Lokomba Nkalulu Rene Cabral, Sekouba Bambino
Africando leading group of Afro-Cuban music, led by Ibrahima Sylla, Boncana Maïga and a core group of exceptional musicians, has continued to highlight the links between African and Cuban rhythms.
The Africando was born in 1992 in Dakar on the spur of the Senegalese producer Ibrahima Sylla and Malian flautist and arranger Boncana Maïga. Main Afro-salsa group in West Africa, Africando brilliantly reflects the love story that binds her, bolero, guaracha and cumbia to African rhythms.
Star singers
In the 1930s already, Cuban sailors, report by sea party rhythms. During Independence in the early 1960s, African capitals vibrate to the sound of Cuban and Puerto Rican discs. At that time, in Dakar, Afro-Cuban groups abound, but they do not record: local bands like Star Band, playing in clubs.
Ibrahima Sylla, passionate young Cuban music has thousands of records and decided to record for the first time a Senegalese group versed in salsa, Baobab. In the following years, Ibrahima Sylla becomes one of the largest West African producers.
Side Mali, several young musicians go to study at the Conservatory of Havana. Boncana Maïga is one of them. He lived and studied in Havana from 1963 to 1973, where he learns melodies and arrangements. His group Las Maravillas de Mali is imposed on Cuba before the triumph in Mali. It creates the orchestra of Radio Côte d'Ivoire in Abidjan and participated in the African tour of the Fania All Stars, a mythical combo of New York salsa.
In the early 1990s, Ibrahima Sylla and Boncana Maïga, become key figures in African music, decided to rebuild the Afro-Cuban splendor. They recorded an album in New York. Initially, the group articulated around a 100% Senegalese vocal trio: Médoune Diallo, Pape Seck and Nicolas Menem. Everyone actively contributes to the development of the Afro-Cuban style in the 1970s.
Médoune Diallo held between 1978 and 1993 a grocery store, belongs primarily to the first production of Ibrahima Sylla, Orchestra Baobab, one of the biggest hits of the 1970s Pape Seck, one of the star singers of Star Band, that it leaves to half of the 1970s founded his own group, Number One. In 1974, his track "Sama Thiély" taken over by Africando beat all longevity records the hit parade of Radio Dakar. Is attributed to Pape Seck, fatherhood gender mbalax , now the Senegalese music style par excellence. It was he who composed more than half of the songs of the first albums of Africando. As for Nicolas Menem, it starts playing in the orchestra of the small town of Fatick, in the Sine Saloum Delta, in Dakar, Number One, and the even more famous Super Etoile. Called by Ibrahima Sylla, he left the National Orchestra to integrate Africando.
"El his" Cuban sung in Wolof
The recording of the debut album "Trovador" in 1993 is in New York. Boncana Maïga arranging all the pieces. Some titles like "Médoune Khoule" Pape Seck worth to the group a phenomenal success in Africa, but also in Cuba, Puerto Rico, New York or Miami. In 1993, Africando received in Abidjan on Africar Music Awards, awarded by an international jury rewards the variety of music from Africa and the Caribbean. The second album, "Sabador" released in 1994 unanimous. Africando's success is based on adaptation of the Cuban repertoire (Benny Moré, Noro Morales, Matamoros), Mexican and Puerto Rican, the Bambara language, Wolof and Serere and marriage of West African instruments on congas and brass sections. Some of Pape Seck compositions like "Yaye Boye" are entering the group in the legend.
In February 1995, Pape Seck Serigne, sick, dies at his home in Dakar. All Senegal mourns one of its best musicians, the national television and radio pays tribute to thousands of fans accompany the coffin to the cemetery in Dakar.
Info. Source - http://www.rfimusique.com/artiste/salsa/africando/biographie
Country: Senegal
Language: Wolof
Quality: Singer / Songwriter
Genre: Salsa
Members: Médoune Diallo, Pape Serigne Seck, Nicolas Menem, James Gadiaga, Lokomba Nkalulu Rene Cabral, Sekouba Bambino
Africando leading group of Afro-Cuban music, led by Ibrahima Sylla, Boncana Maïga and a core group of exceptional musicians, has continued to highlight the links between African and Cuban rhythms.
The Africando was born in 1992 in Dakar on the spur of the Senegalese producer Ibrahima Sylla and Malian flautist and arranger Boncana Maïga. Main Afro-salsa group in West Africa, Africando brilliantly reflects the love story that binds her, bolero, guaracha and cumbia to African rhythms.
Star singers
In the 1930s already, Cuban sailors, report by sea party rhythms. During Independence in the early 1960s, African capitals vibrate to the sound of Cuban and Puerto Rican discs. At that time, in Dakar, Afro-Cuban groups abound, but they do not record: local bands like Star Band, playing in clubs.
Ibrahima Sylla, passionate young Cuban music has thousands of records and decided to record for the first time a Senegalese group versed in salsa, Baobab. In the following years, Ibrahima Sylla becomes one of the largest West African producers.
Side Mali, several young musicians go to study at the Conservatory of Havana. Boncana Maïga is one of them. He lived and studied in Havana from 1963 to 1973, where he learns melodies and arrangements. His group Las Maravillas de Mali is imposed on Cuba before the triumph in Mali. It creates the orchestra of Radio Côte d'Ivoire in Abidjan and participated in the African tour of the Fania All Stars, a mythical combo of New York salsa.
In the early 1990s, Ibrahima Sylla and Boncana Maïga, become key figures in African music, decided to rebuild the Afro-Cuban splendor. They recorded an album in New York. Initially, the group articulated around a 100% Senegalese vocal trio: Médoune Diallo, Pape Seck and Nicolas Menem. Everyone actively contributes to the development of the Afro-Cuban style in the 1970s.
Médoune Diallo held between 1978 and 1993 a grocery store, belongs primarily to the first production of Ibrahima Sylla, Orchestra Baobab, one of the biggest hits of the 1970s Pape Seck, one of the star singers of Star Band, that it leaves to half of the 1970s founded his own group, Number One. In 1974, his track "Sama Thiély" taken over by Africando beat all longevity records the hit parade of Radio Dakar. Is attributed to Pape Seck, fatherhood gender mbalax , now the Senegalese music style par excellence. It was he who composed more than half of the songs of the first albums of Africando. As for Nicolas Menem, it starts playing in the orchestra of the small town of Fatick, in the Sine Saloum Delta, in Dakar, Number One, and the even more famous Super Etoile. Called by Ibrahima Sylla, he left the National Orchestra to integrate Africando.
"El his" Cuban sung in Wolof
The recording of the debut album "Trovador" in 1993 is in New York. Boncana Maïga arranging all the pieces. Some titles like "Médoune Khoule" Pape Seck worth to the group a phenomenal success in Africa, but also in Cuba, Puerto Rico, New York or Miami. In 1993, Africando received in Abidjan on Africar Music Awards, awarded by an international jury rewards the variety of music from Africa and the Caribbean. The second album, "Sabador" released in 1994 unanimous. Africando's success is based on adaptation of the Cuban repertoire (Benny Moré, Noro Morales, Matamoros), Mexican and Puerto Rican, the Bambara language, Wolof and Serere and marriage of West African instruments on congas and brass sections. Some of Pape Seck compositions like "Yaye Boye" are entering the group in the legend.
In February 1995, Pape Seck Serigne, sick, dies at his home in Dakar. All Senegal mourns one of its best musicians, the national television and radio pays tribute to thousands of fans accompany the coffin to the cemetery in Dakar.
Info. Source - http://www.rfimusique.com/artiste/salsa/africando/biographie
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