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Soro
album by Keita
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African popular music
- In African popular music
Released in 1987, Soro became a benchmark for modern African music by showcasing the singer’s powerful voice with sophisticated arrangements of synthesizers and drum machines alongside acoustic instruments and female vocal choruses. For Keita, the record led to a worldwide contract with Island Records. For producer Sylla, it…
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discussed in biography
- In Salif Keita
His highly successful debut album, Soro (1987), was a remarkably adventurous work, tapping stylistic elements from American and European rock and pop music, jazz, funk, and rhythm and blues and fusing them with Mande music, especially hunters’ songs. Of several albums released in the 1990s, Amen (1991) was the most…
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