Frank Bessem's Musiques d'Afrique: Kiné Lam (Senegal)

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Kiné Lam is one of the most famous female voices of Senegal. She was the first woman singer in Senegal to form her own band, and the first to sing in the modern mbalax style. As early as in 1972, she started a traditional group that used to play in different places. Subsequently, she entered the Theatre Daniel Sorano in Dakar, the only national theater in Senegal. She was an artist in residence there for 12 years. In 1989 she left the theatre and started the group Le Kaggu, which stands for "library". Her first album, Cheick anta Mbacké produced a number-one hit in 1989, and she has been voted Senegal's best female vocalist three times.

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