Wally Badarou

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Wally Badarou

Waliou Jacques Daniel Badarou (born March 22, 1955 in Paris ) is a musician from Benin .

Career

Badarou is a synthesizer specialist, known as the long-time musician of the British band Level 42 , which is characterized by its musical mix of funk (music) , pop , soul and rock . Since the debut album was released in 1981, he has co-composed , performed and later co-produced a number of songs . Although he was not an official member of the band, he was long regarded as the "fifth member" of the band, which was actually led by bassist Mark King as a quartet . Badarou can be seen in the music video "Love Games" on the DVD "Level 42 - The Collection".

As a friend of Chris Blackwell , the founder of the Jamaican music label Island Records , Badarou was recruited to work on the Compass Point All Stars project and has also worked on albums by Grace Jones , Joe Cocker , Sly and Robbie , Black Uhuru , Jimmy Cliff , Lizzy Mercier Descloux , Gregory Isaacs , Gwen Guthrie , Mick Jagger , Robert Palmer , Talking Heads , Tom Tom Club . He has also worked with Marianne Faithfull , Herbie Hancock , Robin Scott ("M" - Pop Muzik ), Foreigner , Power Station , Melissa Etheridge , Manu Dibango and Miriam Makeba . He has produced albums by Fela Kuti , Salif Keïta , Wasis Diop , Trilok Gurtu and Carlinhos Brown and also wrote the film soundtrack for Hector Babenco's Kiss of the Spider Woman .

In 1989 he was music director and composer for Jean-Paul Goudes' show on the French Revolution Bicentennial .

In 1997 he supported the Kora Awards , produced and composed “So Why” for the ICRC , together with Youssou N'Dour and Papa Wemba , an appeal against ethnic cleansing in Africa .

As one of the pioneers of the " home studio -concept" he used the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5 synthesizer, the New England digital Synclavier and the purpose-built voice control of Yamaha - mixers .

Discography

solo

  • 1979 Back to Scales Tonight
  • 1983 Echoes
  • 1989 Words of a Mountain
  • 1997 So Why
  • 2001 Colors of Silence: Musical Poetry for Yoga
  • 2009 Fisherman

Movies

Productions and co-productions

  • 1979 Janic Prévost J'veux d'la Tendresse
  • 1981 Alain Chamfort Amour Année Zéro
  • 1983 Marianne Faithfull A Child's Adventure (co-author)
  • 1985 Level 42 World Machine (co-author)
  • 1986 Alain Chamfort Tendres Fièvres (co-author)
  • 1986 Fela Ransome Kuti Teacher Don't Teach Me NonSense
  • 1987 Level 42 Running in the Family (co-author)
  • 1988 Level 42 Staring at the Sun (co-author)
  • 1990 Level 42 Guaranteed (co-author)
  • 1993 Level 42 Forever Now (co-author)
  • 1995 Salif Keïta Folon
  • 1996 Carlinhos Brown AlfaGamaBetizado
  • 1998 Yannick Noah & Zam Zam Zam Zam
  • 1998 Wasis Diop Toxu
  • 2000 Trilok Gurtu The Beat Of Love (co-author)
  • 2001 I Muvrini Umani

Musical participation

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Badarou, Wally
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Badarou, Waliou Jacques Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benin musician
DATE OF BIRTH March 22, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris