Oumou Dioubate

b. c.1964, Kankan, Guinea. Given birth to into a category of ‘jelis’ (hereditary compliment performers), Dioubate began singing at age seven. Six years later on her mom, Gnamakoro Kante, passed away and Oumou changed her as the vocalist with the original Kankan Regional Outfit. She wedded her cousin, a musician and instructor, with whom she relocated to Conakry (the Guinean capital) and created Les Messagers De Morifing Diabate in 1983. She started to develop a contemporary design with outspokenly feminist lyrics. Shifting to Paris in the middle-80s, she was noticed in 1987 from the renowned maker Ibrahima Sylla while performing support vocals on Ismaël Lo’s N’Diawar. Dioubate and Sylla done her debut single album for 3 years, finally completing Lancey in 1990. Actually then Sylla regarded as the album, using its high-tech funky audio and questionable lyrics, as as well daring for launch. Dioubate came back to Guinea in the first 90s to learn that she experienced become a lot more controversial than ever before and her spouse experienced left her. At this time Sylla made a decision to launch Lancey, which became an instantaneous strike in Guinea and across Western Africa. The recording was subsequently found by Stern’s Information and released internationally. The achievement of Lancey offered Dioubate celebrity position in her house nation where she continues to be a controversial number. Wambara was a far more daring and assorted arranged than its forerunner, with Sylla once again making and Dioubate’s tone of voice soaring over a variety of funk, jazz, reggae, salsa and Western world African sounds. To market the record Dioubate toured internationally as part of the Griot Groove tour alongside fellow Western world African performers Sékouba Bambino and Kandia Kouyaté.