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 ...

One of Africa’s most beloved and critically acclaimed musicians, Baaba Maal, invites Uncut to a rare audience in his hometown, Podor. His rich, golden voice and music that hovers deftly between ...

The top film at the box office this first weekend of December was not, as you might expect, a holiday film, but the second installment of the Black Panther franchise, "Wakanda Forever." It's earned ...

In today's WTF? news, a 70-year-old man at a Senegal rap concert pulled out a rifle and opened fire on concertgoers because he was offended by a song's lyrics. According to a BBC News report, the man ...

Almost 20 years ago, veteran British music journalist Chris Salewicz arrived in Paris to cover a rising Senegalese singer whose torrid concerts were setting the world music scene abuzz. At the time ...

Baaba Maal has a bed big enough to sleep six people in either direction. We’re at his house in Podor, his hometown at the northernmost point of Senegal, and he’s giving me the tour. If they made MTV ...

It's been three years since Senegalese singer Baaba Maal released a new record (Missing You, Palm Pictures 2001), but in that time he's lost none of his spark. If anything, Maal seems to acquire ...

Thousands of fans from West Africa flock to the annual Blues du Fleuve festival in Podor, founded by the wildly popular singer who hopes it will one day become Africa’s Glastonbury Senegal’s Blues du ...

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 ...

I might be dreaming this, but I was at an awards ceremony recently, the Gold Badge Awards, handed out by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for service to the music industry ...