OMAR PENE

• country:
  Senegal
• style(s):
  • Afro
  • Mbalax
• label:
  AZTEC MUSIC
• type:
  Band
• gender:
  male
• instrumentation:
  instrumental, vocal
• artist submitted by:
  Safoul Productions

Omar Pene style is raw; his music takes its roots in
the street expression.
Indeed, he always has defended the youth coming from
wise suburb or poor districts, so as the student class, the
jobless and the farmers.
Still today, Omar embodies Hope and Future, keeping
alive his close relationship to his public. A part of his fans
have been working together since 1989 through an
organization called the AFSuD (Super Diamono's
Fans Association The Super Diamono has been Omar
Pene's backing band for thirty years) to make the lifeconditions
of theirs citizen fellows better. Then, the band impact has been increasing
more and more, first on the dakarian youth and later on the international public.
In return for this commitment, Omar Pene was several times awarded, especially as
the best African musician in the United States by the CFTV and he got a Golden
Kora at Johannesburg in 1998.
In the 70's, music was controlled by griots, praise's singers, and we wanted to distance
ourselves with political and social themes says Omar Pene about his collaboration with
the Super Diamono and the beginning of M'balaax. This genre mixes West African
rhythms with Jazz, traditional with electric instruments; Omar remains the biggest icon of
M'balaax.
His voice is known as one of the most beautiful of World Music. His music, influenced by
M'balaax, but also Blues, Jazz, Reggae music and Salsa, makes him a famous artist,
considered as the greatest ones of Senegal and whole Africa. Youssou N'Dour, his
rival , describes him as The living legend of African music .
NDAYAAN NEW ALBUM
Faithful to his political commitment, Omar Pene choose once more to support the
generations to come with this new album.
Released in December 2011, Ndayaan tells us children misery to denounce the elder's
carelessness, those who have made this world a full-of-paradox society and who have
sacrificed their descendants.
A universal glance album, admission of a situation we surely find in Africa, but also in the
other continents. And since this admission can be expressed thanks to words as well as
music, Omar Pene has decided to go on with the experience which made Ndam , his
previous album (2009), a successful one: his own M'balaax fusion.