Omar Pene

Vocalist and composer Omar Pene offers played a pivotal part in the progression of Senegal’s music. Mostly of the Senegalese music artists to rival Youssou N’Dour, Pene and his music group Super Diamano possess inspired the music of the homeland for greater than a one fourth of a hundred years. While their root base remain in the original mbalax rhythms of Senegal, Pene and Super Diamano mix a global selection of affects, including reggae and jazz, to their turbo-charged dance music. Making use of their music reflecting on such problems as unemployment and contemporary education, Pene and Super Diamano continue being what the Tough Guide: Globe Music known as “the people’s music group of Dakar’s proletarian suburbs.” Elevated in Dakar’s functioning course section, Derkle, Pene continues to be singing the majority of his lifestyle. Joining his initial music group, Cad, in 1975, he continued to be using the group for a couple months. As well as bandmates Cheikh Diagne, Bassirou Diagne, and Bazlo Diagne, he became a member of with associates of Tropical Jazz De Dakar, including electric guitar and harmonica participant and vocalist Ismael Lo, to create Super Diamano. Originally linked with Senegal’s traditional music, the group transferred towards a harder-edged electrical sound by adding jazz fusion-influenced keyboardist Adama Faye. Pene provides led Super Diamano through many personnel adjustments. When Lo still left to go on a single career within the mid-’80s, he was changed by the similarly effective Mamadou Marga. Pene totally revamped the music group with ultra-slick program players in 1991. Four years afterwards, the group toured European countries and THE UNITED STATES.