Columba gawlo seck biography sample
Coumba Gawlo Seck is a Senegalese singer-songwriter and composer who was born in February in Tivaouane.!
Coumba Gawlo is a Senegalese artist who combines traditional griot structures in modern recording approaches.
Coumba Gawlo (Seck)
(Senegal)
Coumba Gawlo is a very gifted singer from Senegal. She was born in a musical family, and at very young age she used to sing along with her mother Fatou Kiné Mbaye. Gifted with a remarkable voice, her father added her surname gawlo, meaning griot in Pular language, as he predicted a great career for her.
When still a student, she recorded a couples of cassettes that were quite successful in Senegal.
These albums were « Seytane », « Accident », « Deweneti », and « Kor Dior ». In 1996, a first CD was released with songs from the albums « Deweneti » and « Kor Dior », with the album title « Coumba Gawlo » but the album was more commonly referred to as « Aldiana ».
Coumba's fame was already established in Africa, but an international breakthrough was yet to happen.
With the help of French singer Patrick Bruel, she