![]() ![]() As a child, Oumou Sangaré sang in order to help her mother feed their family as her father had abandoned them. Sangaré's mother was the singer Aminata Diakité. ![]() Oumou Sangaré, born 1968 in Bamako, is a Malian Wassoulou musician. In recent years I could catch some individual live tracks from various performances and sources, as it's only 5 tracks from 1993 till 1996, I added some K7 only tracks from the early 2000s catched from a radio special. Unfortunately never could tape nor get some concert recordings of Oumou in the 1990s. In the following years saw her several times performing live, each time absolutely brilliant with that subtle swinging groove, throwing the calabashes with shells and the powerful vocals by both Oumou and the backing girls.ġ993.Aug.27 - Africa Festival Delft - picture by Frans Schellekens at gettyimages After hearing just one song from Oumou, immediately bought her first album ' Moussoulou', it's still one of my all time favourites. In 1992 spring I prepared for my trip to West-Africa, a part of it was checking music from the area. ![]()
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