Artist:Wasis Diop f/Lena Fiagbe
Song:No Sant
Album:Everything Is Never Quite Enough
Wasis Diop is a Senegalese musician who blends contemporary sounds with traditional Senegalese folk music. He lives in Paris and has had some commercial success in Europe. But he has been critically acclaimed worldwide. He was born in 1950 in Dakar, Senegal. His father was a Senegalese high official. Diop moved to Paris to study engineering. But then he joined the band West African Cosmos led by another Senegalese musician Umban U Kset. After he left that band, Diop spent some time in Jamaica and played guitar with legendary producer Lee "Scratch" Perry. After returning to Paris, one of Diop's songs was in the Eurovision Song Contest. He was introduced to Japanese saxophonist Tasuaki Shimizu and spent two years in Japan in his band. Diop signed with Mercury Records France in 1993. His debut album was the soundtrack to his brother's film Hyenes. No Sant was his second album in 1995. His single African Dream charted in England. But the song No Sant was popular in Europe. The female singer on No Sant is Lena Fiagbe. She's a British singer who released an album in 1993. She doesn't seem to be in the music business anymore. Diop produced the album with Shimizu. His albums were released in the US in Triloka Records. Diop released three albums on Mercury. This comp was released in 2003 by the British reissue label Wrasse because the title song Everything Is Never Quite Enough appeared in the 1999 film The Thomas Crown Affair. It is available as a budget CD. Since then he has recorded three albums for small labels, most recently in 2021. Here's Wasis Diop Performing No Sant on the French TV network INA Feb. 21, 1996. The musicians and the girl singer are not identified.
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