When Baaba Maal comes to the Fillmore on Saturday, August 11, Bay Area audiences will get to hear a voice that is one of the wonders of the modern world: His expansive, slightly nasal tenor slides ...

On '90s albums like "Firin' in Fouta" and "Nomad Soul," Senegalese singer-guitarist Baaba Maal melded African folk music with Western soul, rock and electronica, somewhat in the manner of his ...

It was almost inevitable that Baaba Maal would one day call an album The Traveller because for the Senegalese veteran travel and music are inextricable. The singer and guitarist belongs to the ...

The most emotionally resonant CD released in 2001 was, for me, "Missing You," by the 48-year-old singer-songwriter Baaba Maal. Born in Podor, a riverside town of 6,000 in northern Senegal, Maal was ...