“I’m heading for the future with African heritage,” she told TV5 Monde early in 2019, speaking of her album Barokan, released under the Disques Nuits d’Afrique label. This Montréal-based griot, with her magnificent and powerful voice, worked on this album with Caleb Rimtobaye, alias Afrotonix. The result is a bold, critically acclaimed production in which Mandinka traditions and desert blues billow pleasingly beneath a fascinating synthetic breeze.
