{"id":106445,"date":"2022-05-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/oumou-sangare-timbuktu\/"},"modified":"2022-05-10T15:19:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T13:19:28","slug":"oumou-sangare-timbuktu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/oumou-sangare-timbuktu\/","title":{"rendered":"Oumou Sangar\u00e9 : &#8220;It\u2019s difficult to rattle me&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">She is the feminine and feminist icon of West-African music: Oumou Sangar\u00e9, \u00abthe diva of Wassoulou \u00bb, the name of the cultural zone between Mali, the Ivory Coast and what is now Guinea. Wassoulou, her mother\u2019s region, is the forest lung of southwest Mali.&nbsp; Ever since her first album in 1989, <em>Moussolou<\/em>, Oumou Sangar\u00e9 has been singing its rhythms.&nbsp; She now supports its economy by orchestrating, for example, the Festival International Wassoulou (FIWA), a free cultural event that draws more and more people every year.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for food and agriculture, who experienced poverty and hardship as a child in Bamako, is also a business woman&nbsp;: she owns a hotel in Bamako and has her own brand of rice. She is an international superstar who has never left her country.&nbsp; She was recently invited by Alicia Keys for a televised duo, and the 54 year-old woman is now cited as an example by artists such as Aya Nakamuraor Beyonc\u00e9, who sampled one of her most famous songs, <em>Diaraby N\u00e9n\u00e9, <\/em>for the song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MMuUFjxLQJU&amp;ab_channel=Beyonc%C3%A9\"><em>Mood 4 Eva<\/em><\/a> on the soundtrack of the film <em>The Lion King : The Gift<\/em> in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After an artificial electro album, <em>Mogoya (2017), <\/em>then a magical<em> acoustic version <\/em>of the same album<em> (2020),\u00ab <\/em>Wassoulou kono \u00bb (the songbird from Wassoulou) has now released the first album on her own label, Oumsang, her twelfth album: <em>Timbuktu<\/em>. An introspective opus that forges intimate sonic connections between traditional West African instruments and those linked to the history of the blues.&nbsp; Particularly between the <em>kamele n\u2019goni<\/em> and its distant heirs the dobro and the slide guitar, played by Pascal Dana\u00eb : &#8220;<em>My music, which comes from Wassolou, is traditional. But my doors are open. I welcome everyone with pleasure. I collaborated with Americans and with the English, while keeping my own identity. Pascal Dana\u00eb brought his knowledge without denaturing mine. He adapted to my rhythm.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if the title of the album, <em>Timbuktu<\/em>, is a homage to the city in the center of Mali that has been constantly under siege since 2012 from Jihadist attacks, Oumou Sangar\u00e9 has always sung about her native soil, Wassoulou.&nbsp; In fact, the very first song on the album, <em>Wassulu Don<\/em>, literally means &#8220;Wassoulou culture&#8221;.&nbsp; Most of the eleven songs on the album are about the singer\u2019s highly singular experiences&nbsp;: her never-ending fight in favor of the advancement of women (<em>Gniani Sara),<\/em> solitude (<em>Degui N\u2019Kelena), <\/em>or about the problems her fame brings her (<em>Sarama),<\/em> and which she encourages herself to overcome in <em>Dily Oumou<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Oumou Sangar\u00e9 - Wassulu Don (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tulfimCd6JE?start=1&#038;feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Oumou Sangar\u00e9 &#8211; Wassulu Don (Official Video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We talked about all this, but also about her project to build a school, about Bob Marley, about a memorable concert at the Sydney Opera House, and about her recent role as a granny in a film as well in life.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>PAM : You recorded <em>Timbuktu <\/em>in Baltimore, in 2020, during the first confinement. I heard that you immediately liked this northeast city port and even bought a house there. Can you explain why?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oumou Sangar\u00e9 : In March 2020, after the FIWA, I went to the United States.&nbsp; I was only going to spend two weeks there but because of confinement I had to stay much longer, seven months in fact&nbsp;!&nbsp; I stayed three months in New York first. It\u2019s a beautiful city but it\u2019s exhausting because it\u2019s awake 24 hours a day, the city never sleeps. I needed to be alone, in a calm spot. So I started looking for a house.&nbsp; I looked everywhere, and when I arrived in Baltimore, where I didn\u2019t know anyone, I felt really good&nbsp;: it was green and there was less noise. I said to myself that I would stay there, and then someone told me that if I felt so good there was a reason for it: the first place Black people to set foot in America was in Baltimore. I said&nbsp;: \u2018<em>What&nbsp;! Wow&nbsp;! There is something going on here, some spirits at work<\/em>.\u2019&nbsp; So maybe that\u2019s what attracted me to stay there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>&nbsp;And you asked the <em>kamele n\u2019goni<\/em> player Mamadou Sidib\u00e9 to join you there ?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I\u2019d settled in, I started to think. Mamadou Sidib\u00e9 was my very first <em>n\u2019goni <\/em>player.&nbsp; Then he worked with my idol, Coumba Sidib\u00e9, who took him to the United States.&nbsp; But then Coumba died, sadly. But he stayed there and it&#8217;s been 25 years now. One day I called him in Los Angeles where he lives and I asked him if he\u2019d like to come and try to create something together, since the borders were closed and we were stuck there. He answered&nbsp;: \u2018That\u2019s a great idea, I haven\u2019t touched my <em>n\u2019goni <\/em>for three months, just send me the tickets!\u2019 The result&nbsp;: for three months, day and night, we were free&nbsp;! We slept, we woke up, we created music, that\u2019s all we did. No pressure, no stress. It was incredible. Other than my first album, I\u2019ve never had so much time to spend making an album than on this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1414\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-1010x1414.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105949\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-1010x1414.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-759x1062.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-2048x2867.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-1440x2016.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-661x925.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-465x651.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3-375x525.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-3.jpg 2069w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>&nbsp;Is this why you feel this album is &#8220;the most intimate one&#8221; in your discography&nbsp;?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes! Because, you know, I\u2019m always on the move, always working. And I wrote this album calmly, peacefully. I had time to really think about it, to draw out the emotions inside of me, to look back at the past thirty years of my life. Because of all this I could put more of my heart into it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And even though I was suddenly cut off from my family and friends, while the country was doing very badly, I found a lot of positive things during the confinement. I learned things about myself. It was as if I had been up in the air and now I had my two feet on the ground.&nbsp; I\u2019m always surrounded by a lot of people, and here I was alone and able to contemplate my life. I took my time in the kitchen, cooking meals, I was myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Can you tell us about the history of the <em>kamele n\u2019goni<\/em>, this string instrument with plucked strings that comes from the harp family, and which is the foundation for all your songs&nbsp;?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rhythms of Wassoulou music are partly inherited from ancestral rites, the brotherhood called&nbsp; &#8220;Donsow&#8221; ( &#8220;Donso&#8221;, singular), the brotherhood of hunters. And the emblematic instrument of this music is the <em>donso-ngoni<\/em>, the healer\u2019s &#8220;hunter\u2019s&nbsp;harp&#8221; of the brotherhood of hunters.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, young people (&#8220;kamele&#8221;) were not allowed to dance to this instrument. So in the 1950\u2019s or 1960\u2019s, they created a similar instrument which they played differently so they could dance to funk, jazz, rock, everything&nbsp;!&nbsp; It was a huge scandal! Especially because since they spent their nights dancing, they couldn\u2019t get up in the morning to work in the fields. Young people fought with the elders until they were finally allowed to play it, and today the <em>kamele n\u2019goni,<\/em> &#8220;the young people\u2019s harp&#8221;, is played everywhere in Mali and all over the world. Mamadou Sidib\u00e9 fabricates them in the United States. He also has a lot of students. When Americans play the <em>n\u2019goni <\/em>correctly, it sounds like the way it\u2019s played in Wassoulou!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>I\u2019ve heard that you would like to become a teacher. How is your project coming along to build a school to teach the young about the various artistic professions<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve been working on it for two years now. In 2019, in Yanfolila, I inaugurated a tourist and cultural complex with forty bungalows for my festival, the FIWA. The encampment allows festival-goers, VIPS, employees and volunteers to be lodged there, but it\u2019s active all year long. This is where I want to create an institute to teach young artists and also to train administrators and technicians.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to share the little that I know with people, I don\u2019t want to take it into the tomb with me. I didn\u2019t get the chance to go to school, but the fact of working every day gave me some skills. I know, for example, how to stand in front of an audience that doesn\u2019t understand me and to draw them into my world. This is the kind of thing I can pass on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>In the songs &#8220;Sarama<\/strong>&#8221; <strong>and<\/strong> &#8220;<strong>Dily Oumou&#8221; you evoke once again the problems that come from being famous&nbsp;: jealousy, slander, betrayal.&nbsp; Do you still suffer from these things today?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first it really hurt me. But now, after a thirty-year career, I\u2019ve moved on from all that. It\u2019s difficult to rattle me, I\u2019ve become as hard as cement&nbsp;! (Laughter)&nbsp; I\u2019ve heard the worst things said about me&nbsp;: that I was a Muslim woman, that I had made porno films&#8230;&nbsp; Why? Because after ten years into my career I started building a hotel in Bamako. I said&nbsp;: \u2018Oh really? There\u2019s that much money to be made in porn?\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Oumou Sangar\u00e9 - Sarama (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9pqJeIa3Ic8?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Oumou Sangar\u00e9 &#8211; Sarama (Official Video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>On your very first album you were already fighting against the patriarcal tradition that allows polygamy, forced marriages, and excision. You say that you risked your life by doing it. Can you tell us more about this?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was highly criticized and often even threatened. People would say&nbsp;: \u2018<em>Who do you think you are, questioning polygamy<\/em>.\u2019 But my chance was that I became very popular, which made me untouchable. Even the angry elders couldn\u2019t say anything anymore because their daughters would say to them&nbsp;: \u2018<em>If it\u2019s not Oumou Sangar\u00e9 who\u2019s coming to my wedding, I\u2019m not getting married!<\/em>\u2019 (Laughter) That\u2019s my greatest reward: to have raised awareness, especially in young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Do you have other musical memories from your childhood and adolescence than the &#8220;soumous&#8221; (baptismal or wedding ceremonies)&nbsp;hosted by your mother, who was also a singer, and in which you also participated&nbsp;?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We danced a lot to Bob Marley, it was incredible! We didn\u2019t understand the words, but we danced all over the place when we listened to him sing. I even remember when Bob Marley died, I didn\u2019t eat for several days.&nbsp; I was 13 years old and I couldn\u2019t stop crying. Until someone said to me&nbsp;: \u2018<em>What\u2019s your problem&nbsp;? Did you know Bob&nbsp;?<\/em>\u2019 (Laughter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1010\" height=\"1414\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2-1010x1414.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2-1010x1414.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2-759x1063.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2-1440x2016.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2-661x925.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2-465x651.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2-375x525.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/unnamed-2.jpg 1627w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>You\u2019ve sung in places like the Sydney Opera House, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London,&nbsp; the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and even in Central Park in New York. Is there a place in the world that really impressed you&nbsp;<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m still quite moved when I think about the Sydney Opera House. It was over 25 years ago. I was only supposed to do one concert there, but an Australian television crew came to Wassoulou to do a story about me first. And because of this, to my great surprise, they sold twice the number of tickets. So I had to do two sold-out concerts there. At the end, people were showering me with white flowers, the whole stage was like snow, it was beautiful!&nbsp; I rarely talk about it, even though I was incredibly moved by it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Were there a lot of Malians in Sydney?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No! When they came to pick me up at the airport, I saw only one black person, who praised me by saying &#8220;Sangar\u00e9 bari!&#8221; He was probably the only Malian man in Sydney at the time. (Laughter)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>You have recently made your debut as an actress in the new film by the Franco-Senegalese director Maimouna Doucoure.&nbsp; What are your feelings about the experience<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maimouna asked me to play the role of a granny.&nbsp; I said&nbsp;: \u2018<em>Ok, I\u2019m already a granny with three granddaughters and I love it because my princesses give me so much love, so why not&nbsp;?<\/em>\u2019 Plus the story is really touching&nbsp;: it\u2019s about a young albino girl who is in fact very close to her granny.&nbsp; We did three weeks of shooting here in France, and I loved it. Maimouna told me: <em>&#8216;You\u2019re a perfect artist, you even bring tears to my eyes.<\/em>&#8216; She thinks I\u2019m too talented. (Laughter)&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album <em>Timbuktu<\/em> was released on May 6,&nbsp; 2022. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-105884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare.jpg 600w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare-465x465.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare-375x375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare-85x85.jpg 85w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/timbuktu_oumou_sangare-73x73.jpg 73w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.  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