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Africando is a musical project formed in 1990 to unite New York-based salsa musicians with Senegalese vocalists. Subsequently, under the name Africando All Stars, musicians from other African countries were included. Salsa has been a hugely popular style in Central and West Africa since the 1940s-1950s, and the goal of Africando was to merge salsa rhythms from both sides of the Atlantic, mainly based on the African salsa tradition. Africando was initiated by West African producer Ibrahim Sylla, Malian arranger Boncana Maiga (of Fania All Stars) and legenday charanga singer Ronnie Baro. Some of the musicians initially involved were: Pape Read Full BioAfricando is a musical project formed in 1990 to unite New York-based salsa musicians with Senegalese vocalists. Subsequently, under the name Africando All Stars, musicians from other African countries were included.

Salsa has been a hugely popular style in Central and West Africa since the 1940s-1950s, and the goal of Africando was to merge salsa rhythms from both sides of the Atlantic, mainly based on the African salsa tradition.

Africando was initiated by West African producer Ibrahim Sylla, Malian arranger Boncana Maiga (of Fania All Stars) and legenday charanga singer Ronnie Baro. Some of the musicians initially involved were: Pape Seck (ex member of Star Band), Nicholas Menheim (associate of Youssou N'Dour), and Medoune Diallo (formerly with Orchestre Baobab).

The first two albums were a big success both in Africa and in the rest of the world. Singer Pape Seck died in 1995, and was replaced by Gnonnas Pedro from Benin (who died August 2005) and Ronnie Baro of Orquestra Broadway.

For the latest albums, well known African musicians, such as Tabu Ley Rochereau, Koffi Olomide, Salif Keita, Sekouba Bambino, Amadou Balake; and Thionne Seck were invited. This new constellation led to the new name Africando All Stars. Whilst in the beginning, the songs were Latin classics sung in wolof language or a mix of wolof and spanish, newer songs were African classics, redone with latin rhythms and instrumentation. With both approaches, Africando has been equally successful.

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01Mandali5:06 Africando

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02Miye Na We4:38 Africando

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03Ntoman5:02 Africando

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04Hwomevonon5:12 Africando

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05Mopao4:32 Africando

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06Pepita5:03 Africando

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07Sey5:17 Africando

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08Betece5:03 Africando

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09Carpintero4:49 Africando

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10Scandalo5:01 Africando

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11Son fo4:48 Africando

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12Doni Doni8:21 Africando

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Mandali
Africando Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by Africando:

Aicha Comme si j'n'existais pas Elle est passee a cote de moi Sans…
Ayo Nene Ayo ayo Ayo Nene, mane dou ma dioye nene yalla…
Colombia Mi Corazon Como te amo Colombia y como te esmero verdoso campo, jardín…
Colombia, Mi Corazon Como te amo Colombia y como te esmero Verdoso campo, jardín…
Miye Na We Miye na we, mpaka milele Miye na we, mpaka milele Miye na…
Ntoman Mis noches no tienen luna Son oscuras y amargas En esta hi…
Sama Rew Anang nuan irau Anang nuan nangi Aku aku tu sulu Aku ke paga…
Sama Thiel Eso Moliendo mi cafe, quando les tardes C'est moliendo mi ca…
Sey bo takké sa jieg amak mom ay tom boko weuthié sa…
Te Voy a Matar... Con Amor Hace mucho tiempo Me enamoré de ti Todo era distinto Cuando …
Te Voy a Matar...Con Amor Hace mucho tiempo Me enamoré de ti Todo era distinto Cuando …
Te voy a matar… Con amor Hace mucho tiempo Me enamoré de ti Todo era distinto Cuando …
Yay Boy YAY, SUBA YAY BOY - BAY, SUBA BAY BOY (x…
Yaye Boy Yay suba yay boy bay suba bay boy Mamba mam…

The lyrics can frequently be found in the comments below, by filtering for lyric videos or browsing the comments in the different videos below.

Comments from YouTube:

André Deketele 'AstuteComplexTheory'

2y↑5

Greatings Fellow Earthlings,

I started in 1996 as a dj, first with techno in the heartland of the genre (Belgique), after 2 or 3 years also lots of different styles and genres such as breakbeats, electro, trip hop, funk, rock, blues, jazz and afrobeat like Fela among others. Somewhere in september 2018 somebody asked me 'do you want to play in my father's salsabar?' and I said 'why not' . The first 2 salsatracks I collected were Son Fo and Betece, which are abviously two masterpieces, and I started from there collecting Africando albums and also lots of cuban music. Around 20 october I played my first gig and now I'm still playing salsa about once a month. If there is one genre that I will keep liking it must be salsa because the best tracks all have this sincerity and passion in them and theycare played with great skills and control (as in not playing too much notes). If I die I want people to dance on my grave to this music, just in case they would get what's important, certainly not all the bad news in this 'Age of the Sharpie'.

I've put the comment here, because Mandali is usually one of the first tracks I would use when dj-ing in the beginning of a salsa dj-set, it has a destinct 'son-rumba sound' to it while at the same time the rhythm is salsa, a very usable track, it has a nice storyline in the structure. The singing is also pretty good, it doesn' get much better than this I think. Like most Africando productions a more than decent effort. Thanks for all the Africando videos by the way, I had no idea that this label had put all those marvelous pearls online.

Michael Zimmerman

1y↑2

The best salsa music ever played....thumbs up for Afrikando

Carmen DeJesús

33w

Hola tienen una nueva oyente me encanta la musica africana, se estremecen todos los huesitos jaja ponga mas traduciones en letra tambien tan pronto se le haga posible. Gracias.