Baaba Maal live in concert.
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Baaba Maal

11
critic concert reviews
global

How Good Are They LIVE?

Live Rating  

81
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Real Live Certified  

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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.

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Artist Info

Genre
global
Origin
Podor, Senegal (11/12/1953)
Bio
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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Critic Concert Reviews

Evening Standard (UK)

May 31, 2023
60
%
The Senegalese singer, who played an essential part on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’s soundtrack, has a giant, powerful, and timeless voice

The Telegraph (UK)

June 19, 2022
80
%
The Senegalese star closed Grace Jones's Meltdown with an otherworldly show that had young and old dancing in the aisles

The Independent (UK)

May 1, 2018
100
%
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.

The Guardian (UK)

May 1, 2018
80
%
Armed with just his acoustic guitar, the singer reminded us what a remarkable musician he is

The Guardian (UK)

January 21, 2016
80
%
Showcasing his first new album in seven years, the Sengalese superstar was on impressive, if occasionally frustrating, form

The Guardian (UK)

July 29, 2012
80
%
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

musicOMH (UK)

June 15, 2009
80
%
It wasn’t just his brilliant set that won over the all-seater crowd but his warmth humility and incredibly infectious joi de vivre.

Past critic reviews published in

Backseat Mafia, Dork, Louder Than War (UK), Gaffa (Denmark), Riot Magazine (UK) and more

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