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Biram Seck

From Senegal, United Kingdom

The sounds of Bristol and Dakar fused by the powerful vocals of Biram Seck.

Singer/songwriter Biram Seck's first WOMAD appearance was at Reading in 2003 when he was touring with Suuf, the Bristol-Dakar project that was signed to BBC Radio 3's Late Junction Records. Since then he has continued to find that the musical sensibilities of Bristol form a chemistry with the influences he brought from his home town of Dakar and his family's griot roots in the Fouta region of northern Senegal. No coincidence then that he has picked two fine collaborators for his current project - producer Pete Josef (Roni Size) and guitarist Abdoulaye Samb (Baaba Maal). Between them they have managed to create a sound that harnesses the power of Biram's ferocious husky vocals. But if the delivery is raw, the message is tender. As he says himself: "I would like you to consider my songs appeals for unity, education and civilisation. I love music because it is a means of communicating ideas to broaden minds and build an integrated world, a world of peace."
(Biography supplied by artist management 2011)

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