Cheikh Lô is his own worst enemy. At his best, he's one of Africa's most brilliant musicians, a distinctive, soulful singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who can cover anything from funk to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Two views of West Africa were on offer: one global, one local. Cheikh Lô looked west from Senegal towards the ...

The West African nation of Senegal is home of two of the biggest stars in modern world music, Youssou N'Dour and Baaba Maal, whose output has ranged from sabar drum-driven mbalax and other local ...

Cheikh Lô is sitting in the driver's seat of an old Mercedes, the chair flung far back, the smoke curling from a spliff up and out of the cracks at the top of the darkened windows. A string of Islamic ...

"Lamp Fall," the new CD from Senegalese singer, drummer, guitarist and composer Cheikh Lo, leads off more laid back than his last release "Bambay Gueej." Starting with calm intimacy, the album ...

Cheikh Lo is from Senagal, but his music is steeped in rhythms from all over the world. In fact, many of the rhythms for his new CD came from work he did in Brazil with producer Nick Gold, known for ...

In the end I realised there’s a Buena Vista Social Club user-friendliness about Lo’s studio work, particularly - needless to say - on the songs which have a strong Cuban influence. So my only hope was ...

As the semester comes to a close, students will have the chance to experience a soulful West African innovator perform his own blend of Central and Western African music styles. Cheikh Lô will be ...

Mbalax, the intricate dance music of Senegal, has been made more accessible to Western listeners by Cheikh Lô (born Cheikh N'Digel Lô). Softening the hard edges of mbalax and incorporating elements of ...

It’s most unlikely that 2005 will yield a more irresistible African album than Lamp Fall, the third CD by Senegal’s Cheikh Lô. It was recorded in Dakar, London & Brazil, with a core band, plus a ...

Lamp Fall redefines the meaning of fusion as Cheikh Lo breathes new life into the genre, seamlesly mixing and blending various influences and sounds from around the globe to create his own style. This ...

As part of my homework before last night’s gig at the Scala I played Senegalese singer Cheikh Lo’s latest album Jamm over and over again, waiting for some of its tunes to lodge in my mind - waiting to ...