Thione Seck

The sometime vocalist for Orchestra Baobab in addition has enjoyed a favorite solo career, powered by his brilliant lyrics and powerful tone of voice. So popular provides he become, actually, that he’s often the victim of a bad flourishing trade in pirated cassette recordings. Seck provides used the pirates to job on his 1991 cassette, UNESCO, which also contains some much less strident, but believe it or not lively, pop music. He’s, perhaps, among the two most widely known and admired performers in Senegal.