Cheikh Lô

  • Listeners

    74.6K

  • Scrobbles

    546.7K

  • Listeners

    74.6K

  • Scrobbles

    546.7K

  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User
  • Last.FM User

Join others and track this artist

Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account

Sign Up to Last.fm
Born
1955 (age 71)
Born In
Hauts-Bassins, Burkina Faso
Mbalax, the intricate dance music of Senegal, has been made more accessible to Western listeners by Cheikh Lô (born Cheikh N'Digel Lô). Softening the hard edges of mbalax and incorporating elements of salsa, Zairian/Congolese rhumba, folk, and jazz, Lô has created an infectious, hook-laden style of pop music. While Roots World described Lô's musical approach by writing "complemented by the acoustic guitar, exploding tama, and free-falling electric bass, Lô's voice has a rounded sweetness with poetic hills and valleys," Real Groove Magazine explained, "w… read more
Mbalax, the intricate dance music of Senegal, has been made more accessible to Western listeners by Cheikh Lô (born Cheikh N'Digel Lô). Softening the hard edges of mbalax and incorporating elements of salsa, Zairian/Congolese rhumba, folk, and jazz, Lô has created an infectious, hook-lad… read more
Mbalax, the intricate dance music of Senegal, has been made more accessible to Western listeners by Cheikh Lô (born Cheikh N'Digel Lô). Softening the hard edges of mbalax and incorporating elements of salsa, Zairian/Congolese rhumba, folk, and jazz, Lô has created an infectious, hook-laden style of pop music. While Roots World described Lô's musical app… read more

Related Tags

Add tagsView all tags

Similar To

  1. Avatar for Orchestra Baobab

  2. Avatar for Rokia Traoré

  3. Avatar for Amadou & Mariam
View all artists

Top Tracks

Rank Play Album Loved Track name Buy Options Listeners
1 Play track Jamm Il N'est Jamais Trop Tard
  • Loading
 96 listeners
2 Lamp Fall Sante Yalla
  • Loading
 74 listeners
3 Degg Gui Degg Gui
  • Loading
 49 listeners
4 Play track Jamm Jamm
  • Loading
 46 listeners
5 Jamm Warico
  • Loading
 32 listeners
6 Play track Né La Thiass Guiss Guiss
  • Loading
 31 listeners
7 Play track Balbalou Degg Gui (Album Version) [feat. Flavia Coelho & Fixi]
  • Loading
 28 listeners
8 Play track Né La Thiass Né La Thiass
  • Loading
 18 listeners
9 Play track Né La Thiass Set
  • Loading
 14 listeners
10 Maame Baba Moussa BP 120
  • Loading
 13 listeners

View all tracks

Albums

  1. 18,226 listeners

    23 Aug 2010 · 10 tracks

    Jamm
    • Loading

  2. 16,856 listeners

    24 Oct 2005 · 13 tracks

    Lamp Fall
    • Loading

  3. 10,898 listeners

    Degg Gui (feat. Flavia Coelho & Fixi) - Single
    • Loading

  4. 8,805 listeners

    20 Apr 2015 · 9 tracks

    Balbalou
    • Loading

View all albums

Scrobble Stats

What is scrobbling?

Scrobbling is when Last.fm tracks the music you listen to and automatically adds it to your music profile.

Learn more

Recent Listening Trend

Day Listeners
65
67
53
49
57
53
45
40
56
48
38
47
52
44
49
39
48
36
39
42
51
49
43
71
48
53
53
48
51
58
51
45
47
61
61
53
54
46
58
60
70
68
64
55
60
43
60
58
57
49
39
57
45
38
47
43
34
46
41
64
53
66
59
44
57
56
48
45
43
45
34
36
47
86
68
75
57
57
67
94
71
50
48
48
53
49
51
50
45
44
53
59
66
51
52
53
62
71
38
47
43
61
52
44
37
44
48
45
34
43
57
67
57
35
42
44
46
51
63
51
60
48
51
37
48
47
63
50
49
51
62
53
48
52
50
57
59
56
51
64
48
48
47
42
49
52
45
47
49
53
44
46
50
48
44
45
47
52
45
44
50
47
47
42
43
37
30
38
51
48
39
44
49
42
44
43
43
50
58
58
35
55

Upcoming Events

We don’t have any upcoming events for this artist right now.

Add event View all events

Photos

External Links

Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now

Shoutbox

Javascript is required to view shouts on this page. Go directly to shout page

Similar Artists

  1. 237,413 listeners

    Avatar for Orchestra Baobab

  2. 147,482 listeners

    Avatar for Rokia Traoré

  3. 423,147 listeners

    Avatar for Amadou & Mariam

  4. 50,471 listeners

    Avatar for Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté

  5. 31,007 listeners

    Avatar for Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni ba

  6. 106,120 listeners

    Avatar for Boubacar Traoré

View all similar artists

Trending Tracks

  • 1

  • 2

  • 3

  • 4

  • 5

  • 6

View all trending tracks

API Calls

Scrobble from Spotify?

Connect your Spotify account to your Last.fm account and scrobble everything you listen to, from any Spotify app on any device or platform.

Connect to Spotify

Dismiss