Fatou Laobe is a new singer. She sings traditional
music and has one of the most leather-throated voices
I've ever heard. She would fit right into a 1940s
Gospel quartet. This makes her completely different
from Wolof singers, whose voices are flat (ie hardly
any vibrato or melisma). Fatou is Puular. She has made
three albums, the second of which, Hommage a Tidiane
Anne, is very traditional praise singing with
traditional instrumentation. The other two, Fatou
Laobe and Labat, have an electric band which goes
like mad and both albums are total dynamite
throughout - AM
Allan recommends cdmail as a source. More from Senegal shortly.
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