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Senegalese Superstar Baaba Maal to Perform at MCCC
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Wednesday October 12, 2011
from Montgomery News
Senegalese superstar to perform at MCCC
By Walter Ault
Baaba Maal brings songs and tales of his native Senegal and Africa to Montgomery County Community College on Oct. 22
Senegal native Baaba Maal has been defying the odds for many years. As a youngster he was expected to comply with Senegal’s quasi caste system and become a fisherman like his father. Luckily for his millions of fans around the world, the young Baaba instead became obsessed with music and decided to pursue that endeavor at all costs — for a number of years doing it in secret so as not to upset his father.
That was in the 1960s, when Baaba was a teenager. Now, more than 40 years later, the 57-year-old Baaba is internationally known and respected as a singer, songwriter and guitar player, as well as a provocative storyteller.
Baaba is currently touring the U.S. and is slated for an appearance at Montgomery County Community College on Saturday, Oct. 22, in the Blue Bell campus’ Science Center Theater.
When he was just 11 or 12 years old in Senegal, Baaba started playing guitar, he said in a recent interview, adding that by the time he was 15 he was traveling with a band all over West Africa. Baaba added that while traveling he became intrigued by the local stories and myths he heard in numerous villages.
Somewhat magically, the music he was learning, both African and American, and the varied stories he heard, somehow came together to set Baaba’s future course and ultimately made him the multitalented entertainer he is today, as evidenced by his 16 CDs and his dynamic stage shows, where his sound blends reggae, salsa, R & B, soul music and African music.
While still a youngster in Africa, Baaba became familiar with rhythm-and-blues artists like John Lee Hooker, John Coltrane and Lightning Hopkins.
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