The art and personality of Senegalese-born WOMEX Lifetime Achievement Award-winner Cheikh Lô represent an entire region - he is much more an artist of West Africa than any individual country. He has refused to set down an anchor at any particular genre, although the Mbalax music of the Wolof ethnic group is perhaps closest to him ethnically. In addition to drawing on the entire musical tradition of West Africa, he also incorporates Afro-Latin, Carribean, North American and Nigerian element...s into his music.
The characteristic breadth and colour of Cheikh Lô's music is also in harmony with the artist's spiritual worldview. He follows Baye Fall, a movement within the Mouride Sufi order of Islam. One of the order's central teachings is to "pray as if you will die tomorrow and work as if you will live forever.”
In addition to his musical achieivements, Cheikh Lô's WOMEX Lifetime Achievement award is a tribute to the example he sets to others, both on a social and personal level. Cheikh Lô is a committed advocate for the less fortunate, and the message of peace comes through strongly in his music. His aim is to convey inner and outer peace and the religious teachings of the value of hard work to as many people as possible through his music. "If the music is not good enough, no one will hear the message. So the music has to be very good,” he says.
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