Cheikh Lô

Person · Open Library

Works

4

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Senegal

Active from

1955

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

76,610

Total plays

561,189

Mbalax, the intricate dance music of Senegal, has been made more accessible to Western listeners by Cheikh Lô (born Cheikh N'Digel Lô). Softening the hard edges of mbalax and incorporating elements of salsa, Zairian/Congolese rhumba, folk, and jazz, Lô has created an infectious, hook-laden style of pop music. While Roots World described Lô's musical approach by writing "complemented by the acoustic guitar, exploding tama, and free-falling electric bass <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Cheikh+L

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. International standards for newborn weight, length, and head circumference by gestational age and sex: the Newborn Cross-Sectional Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

   · 2014 · cited 1,900x

2. Global synthesis of groundwater recharge in semiarid and arid regions

   · 2006 · cited 1,040x

3. Gland segmentation in colon histology images: The glas challenge contest

   · 2017 · cited 850x

4. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Culture of previously uncultured members of the human gut microbiota by culturomics

   · 2016 · cited 789x

5. International standards for fetal growth based on serial ultrasound measurements: the Fetal Growth Longitudinal Study of the INTERGROWTH-21st Project

   · 2014 · cited 756x

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Wikidata facts

Official website

cheikhlomusic.com

Image

Cheikh Lo Way Out West 2013 (cropped).jpg

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