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Pierre Sandwidi
12+ albums
burkina fasoafrobeat
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Pierre Sandwidi is a singer/songwriter from Burkina Faso. For many decades until quite recently, little was known about music from Burkina Faso (which was formerly known as the Upper Volta). It is still one of the lesser known forms of popular music from West Africa. A few years before the country changed its name to Burkina Faso, thanks to Thomas Sankara’s dream of a new society, Voltaic music emerged as some kind of true cultural revolution in the wake of the country’s independence in 1960. Remote, poor and isolated, Upper Volta musicians coveted the orchestras and artists from abroad while creating a music of their own, based on rich cultural traditions. Popular music that sprung up from Burkina Faso owed much to the music from neighboring countries like Mali, Ghana, Ivory Coast or Benin, and to the longing for “cultural authenticity” conveyed through Guinean music. In capital city Ouagadougou, as well as in Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina’s cultural capital until the 1980s), the first two decades of independence saw the upcoming of such orchestras and artists as Amadou Balaké, Georges Ouedraogo, Volta Jazz, l’Harmonie Voltaïque, Les Imbattables Léopards, Abdoulaye Cissé, Tidiane Coulibaly or Pierre Sandwidi. Nicknamed “the troubadour from the bush”, Pierre Sandwidi stands as one of the finest Voltaic artists from the 1970s. He belonged to an unsung elite of Francophone artists such as Francis Bebey, G.G. Vickey, Amédée Pierre, André-Marie Tala, Pierre Tchana or Mamo Lagbema. His
top songs
albums
Le troubadour de la savane (1976-1980)
The Original Sound of Burkina Faso (Compiled by David 'Mr Bongo' Buttle and Florent Mazzoleni)
Le Troubadour de la Savane
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THE ORIGINAL SOUND OF BURKINA FASO
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Boy cuisinier
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I Am Drum
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Le Troubadour de la Savane 1978-1980
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Voltaique Panoramique Volume 1 - Popular Music In Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso 1968-1978
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Voltaique Panoramique Volume 1: Popular Music in Ouagadougou & Bobo-Dioulasso 1968-1978
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The Original Sound of Burkina Faso (Compiled by David 'Mr Bongo' Buttle and Florent Mazzole
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get happy [tristes humanistes #51]
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The Original Sound of Burkina Faso (Compiled by David 'Mr Bongo' Buttle and Florent Mazzolen