Royal Band de Thies : Guene - Gui Dek

Royal Band de Thiès - Dioubo - Vol.1 (1980)
The Royal Band de Thiès, led by Adama Seck alias Secka, are quite well known in Senegal but never made it to international fame nor to an international release. Little information is available on them. They are around since the 1980s at least, and singer Adama Seck with his expressive soulful voice has been leading the band since that time.
Hailing from Thiès, the second city of the country with more than 300,000 inhabitants, located around 70 kms East of Dakar, the Royal Band frequently performed and recorded in Club Sangomar in Thiès. Several cassettes have been released, and a couple of older songs can be heard on CD on the Dakar Sound label.
Older songs are examples of mbalax in its orginal raw form.
http://musiques-afrique.com/frames/art_royalband.html
http://aduna.free.fr/aduna.blog/blog2008.htm

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