The Wexner Center is hosting an evening of acoustic Africa tonight with performances from Senegalese star Baaba Maal and Ethiopian musician Gigi. “I brought (Maal) here in the early nineties with his ...

Senegalese superstar Baaba Maal has been recording for close to four decades, and at age 69 he still sounds relentlessly, almost eerily contemporary. While his first album, 1984’s Djam Leelii, ...

It was almost inevitable that Baaba Maal would one day call an album The Traveller because for the Senegalese veteran travel and music are inextricable. The singer and guitarist belongs to the ...

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Uniquely talented Senegalese vocalist and guitarist, Baaba Maal, thrilled Kenyan fans recently at Sarakasi Dome with great fusion of Yela and Mbalax music, writes CRYSTAL OKUSA Dressed in an old ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Today sees the release of his beautiful new song "Agreement," the fourth ...

Walking through the doors from the freezing, wintry Oval, and into brightly lit Weigel Hall, guests were transported from Columbus to Africa for one magical evening Thursday night. Senegal superstar ...

Baaba Maal was hoping to create an intimate, acoustic setting for his concert at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Thursday. Touring in support of his latest album, “Missing You,” which was recorded in outdoor ...

He’s been nominated for Grammys and logged hits on Billboard’s dance charts. He’s headlined at the Hollywood Bowl and closed the South Africa Freedom Day Concert honoring Nelson Mandela in London’s ...

The most emotionally resonant CD released in 2001 was, for me, "Missing You," by the 48-year-old singer-songwriter Baaba Maal. Born in Podor, a riverside town of 6,000 in northern Senegal, Maal was ...