5 min
Music
Cheikh Lo - Ndogal (Official Music Video)
The official video for Ndogal, with Cheikh Lo singing and playing in the loose, percussive style that has made him one of Senegal's most recognisable voices.
About the artist
Cheikh Lô
Senegalese musician born in 1955 in Bobo Dioulasso to Senegalese parents, and a member of the Baye Fall, the movement within the Mouride Sufi order whose followers wear dreadlocks as part of their observance. His work is devoted to the Baye Fall way and honours its founders, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba and Cheikh Ibra Fall; the album Maame, released in 2025, is largely made up of Baye Fall religious songs. He carries that devotion in a music built from mbalax, Afro-Cuban rhythm, reggae and soul, a mix that together with the dreadlocks has often had listeners mistake him for a Rastafarian.
“Balbalou returns to the importance of spirituality, at a time when hateful groups like Boko Haram are diverting Islam away from its humanist foundations. (Cheikh Lo on his 2015 album Balbalou, World Circuit Records artist page, https://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/artists/cheikh-lo/)”Cheikh Lô
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37 min
Music
Cheikh Lo - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
Cheikh Lo and his band play a complete in-studio set for KEXP, mbalax and Cuban rhythms carried by the Baye Fall devotional songs he has sung all his life.
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