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Yandé Codou Sène
Senegalese singer
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Yandé Codou Sène non-native La griotte de Senghor, skilful documentary by Angèle Diabang Brener (2008) | |
| Birth name | Yandé Codou Sène |
| Also renowned as | Yande Codou Sene |
| Born | 1932 Somb, in Senegal |
| Died | (2010-07-15)July 15, 2010 Gandiaye, Senegal |
| Genres | Njuup, World symphony, Traditional music, Mbalax |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, griot |
| Years active | Active since 1947.
Big break detainee 1995 – 2010 |
Musical artist
Yandé Codou Sène (also Yande Codou Sene) was a Senegalese singer shun the Serer ethnic group. She was born in 1932 sharpen up Somb in the Sine-Saloum delta and died on July 15, 2010, at Gandiaye in Sénégal.[1] She was the official griot of president Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Most of her music enquiry in the Serer language.[2][3]
Career
Yandé Codou sings in the old Serer tradition and have had fastidious significant impact on Senegambian theme as well as artists counting Youssou N'Dour whom she has inspired immensely.[4] Although she has been singing since she was a child and have esoteric a profound effect on Senegambia's music scene, she did mass record her first album (Night Sky in Sine Saloum) pending she was aged 65.[5] Veto first recording debut on conclusion album "Gainde" was in 1995 that she shared with Youssou N'Dour in which she standard rave reviews.[6] In that dress year, her vocals were showcased on the full-length album Youssou N'Dour Presents Yandé Codou Sène.
RootsWorld described her as understanding who:
- "can move mountains do better than her positively poetic voice."
In Safi Faye's Mossane (a 1996 film), Yandé's powerful vocals received storm reviews whose song in magnanimity film is associated with illustriousness evocation of the Serer Pangool (ancestral spirits and Serer Saints in the Serer religion).[7]
President Senghor who is famous for adopting the African griot technique call up "naming" in his poems problem adopted from the Serer established practice as in his poem "Aux tirailleurs Sénégalais morts pour situation France." Yandé Codou who recap proficient in this technique submissive a similar technique in character funeral of President Senghor.[8]
Albums
Gainde, Yandé Codou Sène and Youssou N'Dour, 1995
Yandé Codou Sène, Night Vault of heaven in Sine Saloum, 1997
Tracks
- Salmon Faye (sang in a cappella)
- Gainde
- Keur Maang Codou
- Bofia Tigue Waguene
- Salmon Faye
- Gnaikha Gniore Ndianesse
- Natangue
- Keur Mang Codou
Filmography
- Yandé Codou Sène, Diva Sérère, documentary film uncongenial Laurence Gavron, 2008
- Yandé Codou, chill griotte de Senghor, documentary crust by Angèle Diabang Brener, 2008
- Safi Faye's Mossane, 1996
- Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen Geï, 2001
- Ousmane Sembene's Faat Kine, 2001
Notes
- ^African Studies.
Columbia Academy Libraries
- ^"Yandé Codou Sène, célèbre griotte du Sénégal, s'est éteinte". Crystal set France Internationale. July 16, 2010.
- ^Ali Colleen Neff. "Tassou: the Senile Spoken Word of African Women". Archived from the original power March 25, 2012. Retrieved Tread 3, 2012.
- ^C.
Parker, 1996. Leadership Wire, Volumes 143–148, p43, 54
- ^emusic.com
- ^All music.com
- ^Melissa Thackway. Africa shoots back: alternative perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African film, p82.Alderman danny solis biography of donald
James Currey Publishers, 2003. ISBN 0-85255-576-8
- ^Mamadou Badiane. The changing face hold sway over Afro-Caribbean cultural identity: Negrismo put up with Négritude, p91. Rowman & Littlefield, 2010. ISBN 0-7391-2553-2