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Tickets Also Available From Belfast Welcome Centre on 028 9024 6609
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The songbird of Africa, Oumou Sangare has a voice
that’s unforgettable — a rich, full tone that
maintains control while scaling the highest registers
or emitting a spine-tingling sustain. Her first
recording, Moussolou, sold over 200,000 copies in
west Africa, an unprecedented feat. Sangare has
enhanced and refined the deep musical traditions
of the Wassolou region of Mali; traditional
instruments used in her songs include the
kamalangoni (a staccato-sounding string
instrument), the bolon (a wooden marimba), the
Peul flute, and djembe drums and percussion.
To complement her ethereal singing, she adds horns
(arranged by James Brown veteran Pee Wee Ellis)
that offer unusual, soulful accents. Meanwhile,
violins, electric bass and patterned guitar combine
with shakers and scrapers to produce hypnotic
patterns. At times controversial, her lyrics put a
woman’s perspective front and center and make her
a spokeswoman for a new generation of African
women.
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