Why Top 10? ‘Who’s Dat Girl?’ is the definitive "Main Character" visual of 2025. While other artists were exploring heritage ...

Variety's music writers pick 2025's best albums, including Lily Allen, Lady Gaga, Rosalía, Bad Bunny, Clipse, Brandi Carlile, ...

The album, out 28 November, was first hinted at during AFRIFF, where Flavour treated the audience to a short film showing his creative journey with Senegalese music legend Baaba Maal. Flavour is ...

SPECIAL: Though Hubert Laws is best known as a jazz musician, he was a classically trained artist and also particularly well-versed in Latin jazz. We’ll explore those sides of his artistry in this ...

With a career spanning decades, Baaba Maal has built a reputation for fusing traditional and modern Senegalese music styles and singing in Pulaar, French, English, and other African languages. Raised ...

On stage in his hometown of Podor is Baaba Maal, a globally renowned artist celebrated for his classical of work—especially his Oscar-winning soundtrack for the Hollywood film Black Panther—took the ...

Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, "Being." The ...

There’s an exhilarating revamp of Baaba Maal‘s swaggering electro-alert “Freak Out” out today, remixed with typical vim and vigour by electropunkdisco unit Baba Ali. The Relived Mix of “Freak Out” ...

A frontline of percussionists on djembe, sabar and conga drums beat out a fierce welcome. Then, from somewhere behind us, there it was. The same voice that soared – giant, powerful, timeless – over a ...

Baaba Maal’s [BA-ba Marl] daring and dazzling new album, ‘Being’ has received praise and attention around the world. When it was announced at the beginning of 2023, ‘Yerimayo Celebration’ became the ...