"How good are they LIVE?" in the last 12 months on 100 (as of 9/23/24)
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Real Live Certified
Artists are Real Live Certified if their live shows have broad critical acclaim
Critic Consensus
Baaba Maal is 'Real Live Certified' and is in the top 10% of all live performers. Based on 11 concert reviews, the critic consensus is that Baaba Maal is rated as a remarkable live performer, with impressive shows that are worth watching. Baaba Maal concert reviews describe live shows and performances as commanding, infectious, otherworldly, and powerful.
Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. His father was a fieldhand and, as such, Baaba Maal was expected to become a fieldhand as well.
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Evening Standard (UK)
May 31, 2023
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The Senegalese singer, who played an essential part on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s soundtrack, has a giant, powerful, and timeless voice
It is therefore a rare treat to catch him performing virtually alone, with an acoustic guitar – and proving the decades have not withered his spectacular voice, which is as powerful as ever.
Senegalese musician Baaba Maal made the first sounds on the almost empty stage: spluttering fireworks of guitar notes that became the gentle, loping pattern for his song Danibe. Noumoucounda Cissokho added decorative kora. Then the man standing silently behind them twisted and turned his body into a solo danc