Since the release of her debut album Moussoulou in 1989, there’s been no respite for the Malian singer Oumou Sangare. Notable waymarks on her rich and fruitful journey include some of the most ...

Oumou Sangaré will release the new single Kamelemba from her forthcoming album Mogoya (meaning 'people today') on the 12th May 2017. On the song, Oumou sings to women about the dangers of falling in ...

Oumou Sangare has released a new video for "Kamelemba," the second single form recent album "Mogoya" (released May 19, 2017 by No Format!). Set in Paris the slick, all female Afro-futurist video shot ...

Oumou Sangaré found herself caught in New York City, far away from her native Mali, when Covid-19 brought the world to a standstill. But that hasn’t stopped the Grammy Award-winning singer from giving ...

This is a marriage which goes way back to Salif Keita’s Soro (1987), when Paris-based producer Ibrahim Sylla modernized the great singer’s sound with punchy brass, electrically amplified instruments, ...

Malian musician Oumou Sangare’s amazing voice and songs that directly address the plight of women in a highly conservative society have made her a superstar in her native country, and the eight new ...

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As a small child, Oumou Sangaré sang on the streets in Mali to raise money for her mom and siblings. Now she can’t walk down the streets of Bamako without drawing a crowd of people who want to talk ...

Read anything about Oumou Sangaré and it’s a title she’s often landed with, and whilst I don’t imagine its use is intended to reflect the more modern associations of the word in most cases, any ...

It's almost impossible to talk about world music with it not resembling poetry. Sounds become similes of our emotional experience. T.S. Eliot once said that poetry is “felt before it is understood,” ...