Wasis Diop
Wasis Diop (* around 1952 in Dakar , Senegal ) is a Senegalese musician and songwriter, known for a mixture of traditional Senegalese folk music with modern pop music and jazz .
Life
Diop is the son of a senior Senegalese official and a member of the Lébou ethnic group . He left Senegal in the 1970s to study engineering in Paris . Around 1974 he turned to music and formed the band West African Cosmos with the Senegalese musician Umban Ukset , which released an album in 1976. Diop left the band in 1979 to embark on a solo career. In the 1980s he achieved some minor successes, especially in productions by the singer France Anglade and the jazz saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu , on his album Subliminal(1987) he sang. His career solidified in the early 1990s with the success of his first album, the soundtrack for the feature film Hyenes (which was directed by his brother, Djibril Diop Mambéty ). Variety magazine described his soundtrack for the film Daratt from Chad (2006) as "excellent".
More albums followed: No Sant in 1995, Toxu in 1998 and the scrapbook , Everything Is Never Quite Enough in 2004. His song African Dream , a release from the album No Sant , almost made it into the top 40 UK singles Charts.
Diop lives in Paris and writes many of his texts in French . He can also be heard on albums by Trilok Gurtu and Didier Malherbes Hadouk Trio .
Film music
- 1986: N'tturudu
- 1992: Hyenas (Hyènes)
- 1992: Samba Traoré
- 1992: Yalla yaana
- 1998: TGV Express (TGV)
- 1998: tourbillon
- 1999: La petite vendeuse de soleil
- 2001: Les Couilles de l'éléphant
- 2002: L'Amour interdit
- 2002: Le Prix du Pardon - The Prize of Forgiveness (Le Prix du pardon)
- 2004: Un amour d'enfant
- 2005: Delwende, lève-toi et marche
- 2005: Le Sifflet
- 2006: Daratt
- 2010: A man who screams (Un homme qui crie)
- 2013: Grigris Glück (Grigris) - Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
- 2017: Hope for Home (Une Saison en France) - Director: Mahamat Saleh Haroun
Discography
- Hyènes (1992)
- No Sant (What's Your Name?) (1996)
- Toxu (1998)
- Everything Is Never Quite Enough (2003) (Compilation)
- Judu Bek (2008)
- Séquences (2014)
Web links
- Wasis Diop at Discogs (English)
- Wasis Diop at Allmusic (English)
- Wasis Diop in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrick Labesse, "Wasis Diop, guitariste et globe-trotter", Le Monde of 20 December 1996
- ^ Dry Season by Deborah Young, Variety , Sep. 1, 2006
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Diop, Wasis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senegalese musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dakar , Senegal |