Description
Cheikh Lô carries forty years of music in his dreadlocks: he reinterprets Cuban songs, the classics of Tabu Ley Rochereau and the traditional music of Burkina Faso, whilst creating Creole-inspired dance pieces.
The charming, unique Cheikh Lô, with Ray-Bans perched on his chiselled face. An extremely slender figure enveloped in dreadlocks that mark his affiliation with a section of the Mouride brotherhood known as ‘Baye Fall’; a wide braided leather necklace, offering protection against the evil eye; yet the reggae influences discernible in his music, along with these dreadlocks, often lead people to mistakenly regard him as a Rasta.
Cheikh Lô’s voice is unique, cosmopolitan, graceful, slender and high-pitched, pulsating in an irregular manner. It can also suddenly shift to the bass line of Afrobeat, as Cheikh also worked with the legendary Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen in 2010.
