Lasso (Burkina Faso)

Biography of the artist:

Lasso, whose real name is Salif Sanou, was born in Burkina Faso into a family of griots and grew up in surroundings where music and words are at the heart of daily life. This is how he discovered, from a very early age, his talents for several traditional instruments and for singing. Initiated first in percussions with the balafon, doum-doum, tam-tam, bara and djembé, he continued discovering ...