It was almost inevitable that Baaba Maal would one day call an album The Traveller because for the Senegalese veteran travel and music are inextricable. The singer and guitarist belongs to the ...

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When Baaba Maal comes to the Fillmore on Saturday, August 11, Bay Area audiences will get to hear a voice that is one of the wonders of the modern world: His expansive, slightly nasal tenor slides ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like any good display of fireworks, Womad husbanded some of its biggest bangs for the end. São Paulo’s Bixiga ...

A frontline of percussionists on djembe, sabar and conga drums beat out a fierce welcome. Then, from somewhere behind us, there it was. The same voice that soared – giant, powerful, timeless – over a ...

Little of what we know as popular music could exist without the influence, however far removed, of folk music from Africa. Blues, jazz, rock and all the subcategories that sprang from them have ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Today sees the release of his energized new song "Freak Out," the second ...

Baaba Maal has released ‘Freak Out’ featuring the Malawian duo The Very Best, ahead of his 14th studio album, ‘Being’. The new worldbeat track is mysterious as the Senegalese musician draws on the ...

The top film at the box office this first weekend of December was not, as you might expect, a holiday film, but the second installment of the Black Panther franchise, "Wakanda Forever." It's earned ...

The most emotionally resonant CD released in 2001 was, for me, "Missing You," by the 48-year-old singer-songwriter Baaba Maal. Born in Podor, a riverside town of 6,000 in northern Senegal, Maal was ...