Thione Seck

Thione Seck
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Styles: Afro-Cuban
Biography: The sometime vocalist for Orchestra Baobab has also enjoyed a popular solo career, driven by his brilliant lyrics and powerful voice. So popular has he become, in fact, that he is often the victim of a flourishing trade in pirated cassette recordings. Seck has taken the pirates to task on his 1991 cassette, ...Read full biography
Orientation
Released: 2005
Label: Stern's Africa
Critics' Rating:
It's interesting: not long after Senegal's Youssou N'Dour released his very different but celebrated Egypt, countryman Seck -- always a contender but never the champion -- came out with the relatively ...Read full review
Live! XV Anniversary
Released: 2000
Label: The Orchard
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The former Orchestra Baobob singer has become a remarkable mbalax vocalist, at least on the basis of this live disc. No mention of where it was recorded, but chances are that it was in Senegal, because ...Read full review
More Thione Seck albums: Main Albums (4)
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