The Pan African muse

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Pure Energy and whole expression: adorned with elegant colors, fabrics and stone, surrounded by his musicians-including her husband, guitarist Colin Laroche de Feline, with which she started her career in 1999 – and flanked by its instruments

« >She sings, plays and dances unabated, leaving the audience breathless.

In the texts of his feverish songs, sometimes performed with a serious inflection stamp, sometimes with gaits inspired storyteller, Dobet Gnahoré launches its message of redemption of Africa-through work, she said, and a call After Ano Neko (2004), Na Afriki (2007), The Djekpa You (2010), his fourth album, N’dré (published, like the others, by Contre Jour), opens with a prayer, Allah, sung in

« > »In my formative years in the Village of Ky-Yi Mbock Were Were Liking Abidjan, she says, I learned the arts and the development of my personality, to have beliefs without borders. »

Dobet Gnahore in concert on June 5th in London (England), the Songlines Encounters Festival poster, and atypical Nights Langon (France, 22-29 July).