Music video by Baaba Maal performing Yela
with Don Letts [Video Director], Sean Stuart [Video Producer], Rick Elgood [Video Editor]
(C) 1992 Island Records Ltd.
Music video by Baaba Maal performing Yela with Don Letts [Video Director], Sean Stuart [Video Producer], Rick Elgood [Video Editor] (C) 1992 Island Records Ltd.
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Actually, "Yela" is a traditional form of music sung by women in the north of Senegal - Baaba Maal is of Fulani (Pulaar) origin from an area in Senegal called Podor, and in his interviews, he often mentions his influence from hearing his mother and the other women singing and beating the "Yela" rhythm with their calabashes. The Halpulaar griots of that region originated the musical form before the onset of colonization.
epic backwards is cipe. move all leters in "cipe" 4 letters back in the alphabet and it's yela if you jump back around from start to end. i know, it's crazy
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I'm quite sure the song is called Hamady Boiro and Yele/Yelle is a freedom cry in African and West Indian creoles.
i know, it's crazy