Muzikr

By Staff Reporter, *Carlou D: Senegal's Sufi singing sensation* - BBC World - UK
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

The Baay Fall in Senegal is a Sufi sect named after their founder Cheikh Ibra Fall.

Now one of his followers, rapper Carlou D [Ibrahima Loucard], with the collaboration of fellow Senegalese star Youssou N'Dour, is trying to take the Baay Fall's music to the masses.

His album is called Muzikr, a play on Zikr, the word for the Sufi prayers which can be heard at dusk in the centre of Dakar.

On a recent trip to London he told World Update about how religion and music can and should mix.

Listen to the 3' 38'' interview by clicking on the title of this article, then on the audio file.

Visit Carlou D official site (in French).

Picture: Carlou D and band recorded a session at the BBC Maida Vale studios. Photo: BBC.