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Specialist in All Styles is an album by the Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab, released in 2002. [3] [4] After the success of the Pirates Choice reissue, the band decided to record a reunion album. [5] It was Orchestra Baobab's first album in 15 years. [6] The album title was taken from a sign hanging outside a barbershop. [7]
Takamba is a music and dance native to the Songhai and Tuareg peoples of Niger and Mali. It is both a musical composition and a dance. The musicians play a traditional instrument known as the Kurbu or Tehardent and a traditional African Calabash. The Takamba dance includes graceful and rhythmic movements performed both seated and standing where ...
Mahamadou Souleymane (born 1984), [1] known professionally as Mdou Moctar (also M.dou Mouktar), is a Nigerien guitarist, singer and songwriter who performs modern rock music inspired by Tuareg guitar music. His music first gained attention through a trading network of mobile phones and memory cards in West Africa. [2] He sings in the Tamasheq ...
"Gwagwalada" is a song by Nigerian singers Bnxn, Kizz Daniel, and Seyi Vibez. It was released on 16 February 2023, through TYE and Empire Distribution, and was produced by Sarz. [3] Released as the second single off Bnxn's debut album Sincerely, Benson (2023), "Gwagwalada" was included on OkayAfrica's list of "the Best Afrobeats Songs of 2023". [4]
As of June 2020, the video has over 1 billion views on YouTube. [95] "The Gummy Bear Song" – a bubblegum dance song by Gummibär became a viral sensation and was the first song by a German independent artist to gain 1 billion views. [96] As of January 2025, the video has over 3.5 billion views on YouTube. [97]
In 1992, World Circuit reissued the 1978 Paris sessions on one CD, and in 1993 Stern's Music, another London-based world music label, released Bamba, a compilation of the band's 1981 albums. In 1998, the band's debut album, along with several bonus tracks recorded between 1970 and 1971, were released in the Netherlands as N'Wolof .
Participants in the Guérewol perform the Guérewol dance. The eventual winner was the tall young man in the middle. Photographed 1997 in Niger. A young maiden judges men competing in a Guérewol in 1997. The Guérewol (var. Guerewol, Gerewol) is an annual courtship ritual competition among the Wodaabe Fula people of Niger. Young men dressed in ...
The music of Niger has developed from the musical traditions of a mix of ethnic groups; Hausa, the Zarma-Songhai, Tuareg, Fula, Kanuri, Toubou, Diffa Arabs and Gurma and the Boudouma from Lac Chad. Most traditions existed quite independently in French West Africa but have begun to form a mixture of styles since the 1960s.