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Oumou Sangare

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Since December 2008

  1. Oumou Sangare Tom Robinson

    Tom Robinson BBC 6 Music 100%

    Live guests, brand new session tracks and classic archive ones, features and more

  2. Oumou Sangare Gideon Coe

    Gideon Coe BBC 6 Music 40%

    Weekday fun with features and live sessions from Gideon

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  1. BBC 6 Music 100%

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Oumou Sangare Oumou Sangare.

Biography

Oumou Sangare (born February 25, 1968, in Bamako, Mali) is a Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou." Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River, and the music there is descended from traditional hunting songs, and is accompanied by a calabash. Her mother was the singer Aminata Diakité.

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  1. Seya 2009

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    Reviewed by Jon Lusk

    It's been too long since any album proper from the ‘songbird of Wassoulou’.

  2. Oumou 2003

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    Reviewed by Jon Lusk

    'the sequencing of the material has obviously been very carefully thought through,...

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