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Orchestra Baobab is a Senegalese band established in 1970 as the house band of the Baobab Club in Dakar. Many of the band's original members had previously played with Star Band de Dakar in the 1960s.
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]
Issa Cissokho (September 1946 – 24 March 2019) (also written as Cissoxo or Cissoko) was a Senegalese musician of Malian griot roots, a composer, and saxophone player for Orchestra Baobab. Cissokho was recruited to Orchestra Baobab in 1972 while playing in Dakar's Vedette Band, which featured singer Laba Sosseh. [1] With the Orchestra, he ...
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Balla Sidibé (1942 – July 29, 2020) was a Senegalese singer, bandleader, percussionist, vocalist and composer.A founding member of the popular vocal group Orchestra Baobab, Sidibé was responsible for composing many of the band's best known standards and is regarded by many, as the giant of African music.
Ndiouga Dieng (6 June 1947 – 10 November 2016 [1]) was a Senegalese singer and one of the original vocalists of Orchestra Baobab, who died in 2016 after a prolonged illness. [2] [3] [4] Momo Dieng is his son.
In the early 1970s he joined Orchestra Baobab, and rode the band's success into the 1980s. When the band disbanded in 1987, Attisso returned to Togo to practice law. He did not play the guitar until the 2001 reunion, and went on to record and tour with Orchestra Baobab, although he also maintained his practice in Lomé. [4]
The Star Band and three of its off-shoots from the 1970s were important in the evolution of the music. In 1970, Orchestra Baobab broke away from the Star Band followed by No. One de Dakar in 1976. All three bands were notable for their integration of traditional musical styles into the common Latin dance styles of the Senegalese nightclub bands ...