Wasis Diop

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1950

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Listeners

28,152

Total plays

169,680

Wasis Diop (born 1950 in Dakar, Senegal) is an internationally renowned musician known for blending traditional Senegalese folk music with modern pop and jazz. The son of a Senegalese high official and member of the Lebou tribe, Diop left Senegal in the 1970s to study engineering in Paris, but once there turned to music, joining a fellow Senegalese musician, Umban Ukset, in forming the band West African Cosmos. Diop left the band in 1979 to start a solo career <a href="https://www.last.fm/music

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Family name

Q1227038

Gender

male

Citizenship

Senegal

Place of birth

France

Child

Mati Diop

Occupation

composer

Languages spoken

French

Participant in

Q1471726

Field of work

music

Instrument

voice

Official website

wasisdiop.fr

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