Cheikh Lô

Cheikh Lô N'Digel (* 1959 in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso) is a Senegalese musician.

Life

Born in 1959 in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso by Senegalese Cheikh Lô parents grew up in Burkina Faso. Instead, like his brothers and sisters, to prepare for university studies, he joined Orchestre Volta Jazz, which plays both Cuban and Congolese pop music, as well as traditional music from Burkina Faso. 1978 Lô moved to Senegal to play in several mbalax bands. As a guitarist he founded with a group of French musicians and the Ivory Coast in 1985, a band with which he moved to studio recordings to Paris in 1987. After the band broke up then a short time later, Cheikh Lô remained as a backup musician in Paris at the same time to experiment on his own musical style. For this Lô blended his own mbalax with reggae - roots and the Congolese Soukous style. In Paris he met among others with Papa Wemba, and took a first cassette in 1990 in Dakar. Appeared in 1995 Los debut album Ne La Thiass, which was produced by Youssou N'Dour and for which he should appear on its European tour as support.

Cheikh Lô is a member of the Baye Fall, a group within the Muslim Brotherhood Muridiyya. As such, it is to wear dreadlocks stopped what often mistakenly puts him into the environment of Rastafari.

Awards

Discography

• Ne La Thiass (1996)
• Bambay Gueej (1999)
• Lamp Fall (2005)
• Jamm (2010)