About Oumou Sangaré
Oumou Sangaré is a Malian Wassoulou singer of Fula descent. She is often referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou". Wassoulou is a historical region south of the Niger River, where the music descends from age-old traditional song, often accompanied by a calabash. Sangaré recorded her first album, Moussoulou ("Women"), for malian producer Abdoulaye Samassa (Samassa Records), with Amadou Ba Guindo, a renowned maestro of Malian music. Her career began in 1973 when at the age of five she won an inter-kindergarten singing competition in Bamako and performed before an audience of several thousands at the Omnisport stadium. She was named an ambassador of the FAO in 2003 and won the UNESCO Prize in 2001 and was made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France in 1998. In 2022, she was cast in her first acting role, playing the title character's grandmother in Maïmouna Doucouré's film Hawa.
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