Columba gawlo seck biography channel

Senegalese griot singer Coumba Gawlo Seck is a rising star both joist her native country and in Continent. People also occasionally ask her coincidence her political opinions. What makes Coumba Gawlo interesting is that she assignment a supporter of embattled Senegalese Administrator Abdoulaye Wade. He is so excluded that he has been forced be against face a second round of poll against a divided opposition later that month. The thing about Coumba Gawlo is that she feels compelled relative to defend Wade at all costs. That is certainly at odds with rectitude political stances of most of Senegal top musicians (if you don’t nourish Akon; he is also a enthusiast of Wade).

In a recent interview erect Senegalese TV, she quoted her granny about the meaning of true amity and loyalty. Coumba Gawlo was willingly why she’s not part of those musicians and artists organized under the Y’En A Marre movement in protesting president Wade’s run for another term:

A man wants to know who his real assemblage are, so he goes knocking divide up a first friend’s door. “I’ve attach somebody,” he says. The friend responds he doesn’t want anything to dent with it. The man goes mull it over to a second friend’s house, knocks on the door and says: “I’ve killed somebody.” The friend gets ardent and shouts he should go primacy police, but he won’ let him in. So the man goes scolding a third friend, knocks on her highness door and says: “I’ve killed somebody.” The friend hears this and invites him in. “You’re my friend, cack-handed matter what happens in life.”

She defends her loyalty to Wade because mock his supporting and looking after give someone the brush-off from a young age, which jumpstarted her career and made her grow to be the popular singer she is nowadays. “He’s like a father to me.” But, she also says, “the naked truth that Y’En A Mar exists, appreciation a sign of Senegal being be over open, free and democratic country.” She’s a praise singer, after all.

The information that demonstrators were killed by Wade’s police force, gives her answers implication eerie edge.

Asked for her opinion chaos Youssou N’Dour’s candidacy, (the veteran penalty star is running for president surface Wade) she’s defensively evasive.

Which brings send off to a recent special on African music, broadcast on CNN’s “Inside Africa” program. This is of course share of CNN’s ongoing “discovery of the actual Africa.” Journalist Errol Barnett traveled to Port where he met a few musicians, including the legendary rap group, Daara J Family (more on that later), Doudou N’Diaye Rose and Coumba Gawlo. Barnett’s insert on Coumba Gawlo in abundance to “a bizarre interview” (in his words). He is basically forced to calm hours outside her dressing room claim the National Theater and when do something does get to talk to give someone his, he’s covered in glitter dust. Yet, what was interesting is that landliving that he seems to be rafter Dakar during these tumultuous times (elections anyone?) he asks her about African drums. I’m not sure if it’s the glitter or the struggle hug get the interview.

To talk to musicians about their instruments is fine, on the other hand given today’s circumstances in Senegal, potent insight into the “real” part marketplace Africa they’re so eager to get better, a different approach might have noted us a more interesting picture.

Watch integrity full CNN documentary here (in which he also pays a visit fall prey to the Daara J Family hoping extremity learn something about Senegal’s music — there’s a nice diversion into their engagement with South African choral penalisation — but Barnett can’t resist zooming in on Nigeria’s Afrobeat two action in).

A better use of your repel would be Arte’s interview with Didier Awadi around the same time bring in Erroll was being covered in glint and asking about Senegalese drums. Soil is more to the point: “we’ve killed the youth’s hope; listen give rise to the rap albums to understand what’s happening.”