Oumou Sangare - "Wayeina" (Womad 2003)

Oumou Sangare @ Womad

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Music

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• Oumou
• Sangare
• Womad
• 2003
• Wayeina
• Mali

[Maliksabawi]

Africa has uncountable, talented musician with loads of beats from north to south & east to west but the sad thing is that we Africans know each other less. I have not seen once any famous musician coming to Ethiopia from any part of Africa. We always seek attention from the west but we have the potential to boost our intercontinental music industry...it's time to know each other people!

[zuego69]

@Maliksabawi I love Oumou Sangare I am mexican and she come to my country Mexico to sing , it was the first time I could listen such a beautiful vioce and african music, she sang for free in the main important place in Mexico "el Zocalo" it was great. Then she and the band danced with the aztecs dancers I took some pictures with her, I just love african music. Mama Africa!!!!!!

[anak1]

This is the Takamba. Its a popular rhythm and hypnotic dance in the northern half of West Africa among the Songhai and Djerma people, but is also popular among the Tuaregs, Fulani, Bambara and Hausas, especially in Mali and Niger.

There are many videos on youtube on the Takamba, just type it in the searchbox. Its a wonderfully hypnotic genre little known outside the region, kudos to Oumou for introducing this beautiful music to the wider world.

[leftysergeant]

@Maliksabawi Music is a great measure of the health of a culture. I have listened to a lot of music from Ethiopia and Eritrea and from Mali, Senegal and Gambia. That all of these countries keep their traditonal music alive and still find ways to mix in music from other cultures without losing their own identity tells me that they are poised for a new flowering, given the right chance. Imagine a resource that foreign investors cannot haul off without paying decently for it.

[WitnessTheDevine]

@Maliksabawi i am glad to finally read a true and intelligent comment in youtube,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,mor­e, i am glad to find that i am not the only one in africa who thinks this ...............

[VraiDiouf]

This is great, long live Africa and peace to all Africans from West to East and from North to South.

[Olukodiallo]

I can't go one day without listening to her music. Give Thanks!!

[TheSamimo]

Quelle merveilleuse voix que celle de la Diva Oumou Sangaré ! Je ne me lasse pas de l'ecouter...

[momo0270]

@Maliksabawi That's not exactly true. If you look around here you'll find a concert by a Sudanese singer in Ethiopia. I grew up in Morocco, and I remember a music festival in Agadir where More Conte played. Now there are music festivals across Morocco every summer, and musicians from all over Africa come and participate. Musicians need stability, otherwise they won't show up. Cote D'Ivoir used to have some nice music events, now it's unstable so obviously musicians won't risk their lives.

[koyamani]

Amazing, just listen the beat specially last 20 seconds...........IAM FROM SOMALIA but MALI music i feel more

[totalmentemad]

I have to agree with you. I know very little about Ethiopia and there's so much I would like to see there too. First I will have to learn to play some instrument and some traditional Angolan music so I would be able to play for you there. But I get your point. thousands of years in the same continent and we know very little about each other.