Africa Live - The Roll Back Malaria Concert

Starring: Salif Keita, Youssou Ndour Dvd Release: 3rd April, 2006 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Colour, Dolby, PAL, Widescreen, Region 0 Encoding

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Salif Keïta is a former Malian football player. In 1963, at the age of 16, Keïta was selected to play on the national team, the Eagles of Mali, in the African Nations Cup. He played for AS Real de Bamako where he was three times named champion of Mali. In 1967, Keïta left for France to join AS Saint-Étienne, where he gained three titles of champion of France. Considering himself exploited, however, he left Saint-Etienne for Olympique de Marseille. After they tried to force him to assume French nationality, however, he left for AS Valence & then finished his career in the United States. In 1970, Keïta won the Ballon dor Africain. In 1994, he created the first training center for professional football players in Mali, which bears his name. The Guinean director Cheik Doukouré took the life of Salif Keita as a starting point for his 1998 film Le Ballon dor. In June 2005, Salif Keita was elected president of the Malian Federation of football for a term of four years.

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Youssou Ndour is a singer who was born in Dakar, Senegal. He helped develop todays popular music in Senegal, known in the Wolof language as mbalax, a blend of the countrys traditional griot percussion & praise-singing with the Afro-Cuban arrangements & flavors which made the return trip from the Caribbean to West Africa in the 1940s, 1950s & 1960s & have flourished in West Africa ever since. Beginning in the mid-1970s the resulting mix was modernized with a gloss of more complex indigenous Senegalese dance rhythms, roomy & melodic guitar & saxophone solos, chattering talking-drum soliloquies and, on occasion, Sufi -inspired Muslim religious chant. This created a new music which was at turns nostalgic, restrained & stately, or celebratory, explosively syncopated & indescribably funky.

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