In the early 1980s, Senegalese singer Youssou N'dour performed at the Africa Centre in London as part of a club night called the Limpopo Club. It was the first time mbalax, the dance music popular in ...

I spent my five weeks shuttling between my teachers' compound and going to hear Mbalax, which is the modern Senegalese music you hear in nightclubs. Read Harris Eisenstadt: From Mbalax to Canada Day ...

It fuses the sabar and talking drum-driven rhythms of Senegal’s mbalax music with the German’s touch for techno and dub. Mbalax was born in Senegal in the early 1970s and is seen as a fusion of ...

Cutting edge music is on tap for the Brandeis campus Saturday, Oct. 16 at 8 p.m. when Group Saloum, arguably America’s hottest Afro-mbalax band, takes to the stage at Slosberg Recital Hall for a ...

Yusupha Mboob is another Gambian mbalax heart-throb struggling hard to gain international recognition. He is currently based in Austria where he is active in music more than ever before. Born and ...

"Mbalax is what we’re born with," says Senegalese percussionist Khadim Mbaye. An accomplished sabar drummer and one-third of Paradise Cinema – along with Tons Sambe on tama drums and Jack Wyllie of ...

Mbalax, the intricate dance music of Senegal, has been made more accessible to Western listeners by Cheikh Lô (born Cheikh N'Digel Lô). Softening the hard edges of mbalax and incorporating elements of ...

The African musician (right) who put Senegal on the music map performs with his band a mix of modern Senegalese pop mbalax music with samba, hip-hop, jazz and soul music. Today, 8pm, Concert Hall, HK ...