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Super Diamono was a ten-member band from Dakar, Senegal. It was
formed in 1974 or 1975. Omar Pene was a founding-member, and the
group was alternately...
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Lemzo Diamono was a
Senegalese musical group, well
known in the 1990s. The
group was
mainly active from 1990 to 1998. Past
members Lamine Faye Alioune...
- is a
Senegalese vocalist and composer, who is the lead
singer of
Super Diamono, and is now a solo artist. Omar Pene was born in the working-class neighborhood...
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Senegal with 1988's Xarit. In the
latter part of the 1970s, the band
Super Diamono formed,
fusing mbalax rhythms and
militant populism with jazz and reggae...
- at the
School of Art in Dakar. He
later joined the po****r
group Super Diamono, but left in 1984 to
start a solo career. Over the next four
years Lo recorded...
- the lead
singer of Guelewar, as well as one of the lead
singers of
Super Diamono during the 1980s. He was also a solo artist,
sometimes under his own name...
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career in 1991 with the
group Lemzo Diamono, a break-off
group from the
hugely po****r
Super Diamono.
Lemzo Diamono also
included well-known Senegalese...
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Hadji Faye), and Raam Daan (starring
Thione Seck),
Xalam II, and
Super Diamono.
Since becoming po****r, both
Mbalax and its ****ociated
dance have spread...
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chants into his work. At the age of 15,
Youssou N'Dour
joined a band
called Diamono and, in 1975,
toured with the band in West Africa. In 1976 when N'Dour...
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African and New York
salsa scene. Musa Ngum,
former Guelewar and
Super Diamono frontman relocated to
Senegal in 1981.
Civil unrest caused Ifang Bondi...