Issa Bagayogo
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Biography
[Edit]By rights, Issa Bagayogo should never have become a musician. Born in 1961 to a farming family in Korin, a poor village 30 miles from the nearest town in southern Mali, his fate seemed to be to work the farm his father worked with his four wives and 14 other childen. But Bagayogo was drawn to music, first playing the daro, a bell that keeps farm workers laboring. From there, at ag 12, he took up the six-string young man's harp, or kamele n'goni, a common instrument throughout the Wassalou area of the country. He started singing and soon was making a name for himself locally. At the age of 30, he decided to try his hand in the Malian capital, Bamako, where he met a couple of Frenchmen who had just opened a studio and needed a kamele n'goni player. The end result was his first, very traditonally oriented cassette (cassette being the ubiquitous music medium in African and much of the world). It didn't make any money, but it was his. After three months, Bagayogo returned home, but came back to Bamako two years later to make his second cassette, which still brought no success. This time, however, he remained in Bamako, becoming an apprentice bus driver. Depressed at his failure as a musician, he began drinking and taking pills; his wife left and it seemed as if his life had bottomed out. Eventually, however, he decided to turn his life around and began playing and singing again. He returned to the studio, where he met French engineer Yves Wernert and Foamed Koné, who'd been a guitarist in Ali Farka Touré's band. What they wanted to attempt was something radically different for African music, mixing traditional music with beats and samples. At first Bagayogo was unsure, if only because it was so unlike anything he'd done. He'd never worked with drum machines before and the process proved complex. In late 1998, though, Sya was released, selling a phenomenal 15,000 copies and getting Bagayogo an award in 1999 as Malian song's Brightest New Hope and the nickname of Techno Issa, in addition enabling him to finally quit his job as an apprentice bus driver. In 2002, Timbuktu, the second album from the trio's collaboration, appeared.
Collections
Title: Six Degrees 100
Genre: World Music
Title: Putumayo Presents African Blues
Genre: World Music
Title: Putumayo Presents African Beat
Genre: World Music
Title: Sono Maison Mere, Vol. 1
Genre: World Music
Title: Global Dancefloor: A Collection of Global Dance
Genre: World Music
Title: Globaltronica: World Electronic Sounds Vol. 2
Genre: World Music
Title: Mixatac #1 Bamako
Genre: World Music
Title: Mixatac la collection
Genre: World Music
Title: Six Degrees Remixed
Genre: Electronica
Title: The Beginner's Guide to Six Degrees
Genre: World Music
Title: Traveler '06
Genre: World Music
Title: Putumayo Presents: Euro Lounge CD 2
Genre: World Music
Title: The Rough Guide To African Misic For Children
Genre: World Music
Title: 25 Putumayo Albums (African Groove)
Genre: World Music, Ethnic , American Folk
Title: 25 Putumayo Albums (Groove Sampler) (Promo)
Genre: Dancefloor, World Music, Ethnic , Dance Pop, American Folk
Title: 25 Putumayo Albums (World Groove)
Genre: World Music, Ethnic , American Folk
Title: Putumayo Presents: African Beat
Genre: World Music
Title: Nuits D’Afrique - 30 Ans (Compilation Retrospective)
Genre: Reggae, Dub, World Music, Latin
Title: Afro Music Party 2017 (CD1)
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Ethnic
Title: Afro Music Party 2017 (CD2)
Genre: Jazz, World Music, Ethnic