There’s no need for us to explain why the Malian singer is a fighter. Oumou Sangaré doesn’t need to demonstrate this either. Just being herself, in the world and on stage, with her openness and […]

The Ninja Tune signee will bring together 12 tracks of her electro-pop underground music on her first album Capricorn Sun, out October 7th.  A new face of the London house scene, TSHA has been turning […]

In Mali, her home country, she is busy with a project to create an institute ; she recorded her new album Timbuktu in the United States ; and she has recently become an actress in a film shot in France. Oumou Sangaré is back indeed and speaks cogently and with humour about her thirty-year career. Interview.

The Malian singer is back with Timbuktu, a new album with an international scope.  On April 29, world icon Oumou Sangaré will release the thirteenth album of her immense career: Timbuktu. Recorded between the United […]

Though there was no ceremony, the great songstress of Malian music has been presented with the French Sacem Grand Prix by singer Aya Nakamura for her acoustic album that blended modern vocals with traditional instruments. […]

The label No Format! announces the release of an exclusive album by Oumou Sangaré, called “Acoustic”. It was recorded under live conditions where the purity of her voice and that of the instruments shine through. The album will be released on June 19th.

Sampha has remixed the “Minata Waraba” track of Oumou Sangaré’s latest album Mogoya. The version appears on a remixed LP of Mogoya, which will arrive March 2 via No Format!. Listen below. The track is built on […]

‘Fadjamou’ by Oumou Sangaré is the third single from her Mogoya album, released via No Format. Following a sold-out Village Underground headline earlier this year and an outstanding set at Glastonbury that was named ‘one of […]