◇ image via WikipediaOumou Sangaré
Oumou Sangaré is a World music act. Their sound grew out of Barbara Kanam, Tony Allen and Aya Nakamura. Those roots explain a lot about how Oumou Sangaré arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Toumani Diabaté, Amadou & Mariam, Cheikh Lô, Orchestra Baobab and Vieux Farka Touré, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into P!nk, India.Arie, Left Boy, Jeff Beck and Seal, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Oumou Sangaré, reaching back through Barbara Kanam and forward to P!nk. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Oumou Sangaré connections
Oumou Sangaré grew out of Barbara Kanam, Tony Allen and Aya Nakamura, shares an orbit with Toumani Diabaté, Amadou & Mariam, Cheikh Lô and Orchestra Baobab, went on to shape P!nk, India.Arie, Left Boy and Jeff Beck. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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