‘I feel great,’ says Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal, when I ask how he’s feeling about turning 70 this year. ‘I get to do something I love in my heart. Music gave me the gift to see the world ...

Singer and composer Baaba Maal is a superstar in his homeland of Senegal, but he has also cultivated a large worldwide following by blending traditional Senegalese music and Western pop/reggae into a ...

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 ...

When Baaba Maal comes to the Fillmore on Saturday, August 11, Bay Area audiences will get to hear a voice that is one of the wonders of the modern world: His expansive, slightly nasal tenor slides ...

To average music enthusiasts, his name may not easily ring a bell. But for connoisseurs of afro-fusion rhythms, Baaba Maal is celebrated as one of Senegal’s leading performing artistes and exponent of ...

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Baaba Maal was inspired as much by thirst for adventure as for learning when, as a young Paris conservatory student, he persuaded his teachers to let him spend two years collecting songs and stories ...