But Mogoya sounds and feels like a career defining moment, the rich fruit of hard-won experience over a life spent confronting prejudice and obstacles -- and triumphing over them. I've collaborated with many people and I've been able to observe people's mentality," Oumou says. Born in in the Malian capital of Bamako, the moment which she defines as shaping her career occurred when she was just two years old. Her mother, a singer who made her living performing at traditional wedding ceremonies and baptisms, sank into a deep depression at this desertion.
But it also made her "a fighter," a quality Oumou inherited in abundance along with her mother's singing talent. By the time she was five, mother and daughter were singing together and by the age of thirteen, Oumou had become the family's main breadwinner. I can face up to any obstacle.
It was no coincidence that her first album was titled Moussolou the title means 'women' ; or that her next album, Ko Sira , included a song titled "Dugu Kamalemba" which translates as 'the skirt-chaser' ; or that the title of her third album, Worotan meaning 'ten kola nuts' was a reference to the price of a bride in an arranged marriage. For her, though, music will always come first. I fear that my faltering French and poor phone signal might irk her, but she turns out to be unfailingly patient, even with a three-month-old baby her granddaughter, who was born in New York stealing her attention.
Yet there have been wonderful moments — she enjoys cooking for the children, and listening to them play. I think this pandemic has enabled us to bring people closer, to put solidarity back at the core of society and think more collectively. She found herself in demand when she began singing with her mother at traditional weddings and baptisms, aged five.
She gained international recognition in when a British label, World Circuit, picked up her Moussolou album's rights outside of Africa. She released her second album Ko Sira, which means Marriage Today , in The album was recorded in Berlin and released on the World Circuit label. The following year, she made her second trip to the United States as part of the Africa Fete package tour.
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