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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	Oumou Sangaré is a Malian singer whose work brought [[Wassoulou]] music to broad international audiences. Her songs address women's choices, marriage, poverty and social responsibility, placing a commanding individual voice within a regional musical language.<ref name="oum-world">[https://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/artists/oumou-sangare/ World Circuit: Oumou Sangaré]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		Oumou Sangaré is a Malian singer whose work brought [[Wassoulou]] music to broad international audiences. Her songs address women's choices, marriage, poverty and social responsibility, placing a commanding individual voice within a regional musical language.<ref name="oum-world">[https://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/artists/oumou-sangare/ World Circuit: Oumou Sangaré]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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	== Music and style ==		== Music and style ==
	Wassoulou's repeating harp patterns and pentatonic melodic resources frame her forceful singing. Her influence is both musical and social: the recorded repertoire gave women's public commentary an international platform, while subsequent arrangements demonstrated that regional identity could survive substantial changes in sound. Beyoncé's sampling of 'Diaraby Nene' is one documented route into a different popular-music audience.<ref name="oum-world" /><ref name="oum-timbuktu" />		Wassoulou's repeating harp patterns and pentatonic melodic resources frame her forceful singing. Her influence is both musical and social: the recorded repertoire gave women's public commentary an international platform, while subsequent arrangements demonstrated that regional identity could survive substantial changes in sound. [[Beyoncé]]'s sampling of 'Diaraby Nene' is one documented route into a different popular-music audience.<ref name="oum-world" /><ref name="oum-timbuktu" />

	== Works and performances ==		== Works and performances ==

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== Summary ==
Oumou Sangaré is a Malian singer whose work brought [[Wassoulou]] music to broad international audiences. Her songs address women's choices, marriage, poverty and social responsibility, placing a commanding individual voice within a regional musical language.<ref name="oum-world">[https://www.worldcircuit.co.uk/artists/oumou-sangare/ World Circuit: Oumou Sangaré]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Contemporary and trending ==
On ''Timbuktu'' (2022), Sangaré brought the kamalengoni into arrangements using dobro and slide guitar, with elements of [[Blues|blues]], folk and [[Rock|rock]]. The album's connections are audible in instrumentation and production as well as its continuing social concerns.<ref name="oum-timbuktu">[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL8lRZbAVlw Oumou Sangaré: official Timbuktu album trailer and release notes]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== Life and career ==
Sangaré grew up in Bamako and sang alongside her mother at celebrations. Her mother's Wassoulou background helped shape the musical resources she brought into her own career. ''Moussolou'' established her recorded voice; World Circuit's international release widened the music's circulation.<ref name="oum-world" />

== Music and style ==
Wassoulou's repeating harp patterns and pentatonic melodic resources frame her forceful singing. Her influence is both musical and social: the recorded repertoire gave women's public commentary an international platform, while subsequent arrangements demonstrated that regional identity could survive substantial changes in sound. Beyoncé's sampling of 'Diaraby Nene' is one documented route into a different popular-music audience.<ref name="oum-world" /><ref name="oum-timbuktu" />

== Works and performances ==
''Ko Sira'', ''Worotan'', ''Seya'', ''Mogoya'' and ''Timbuktu'' offer entry points into different periods of her recording career. Compare the vocal address and the balance of harp, rhythm section and other instruments, rather than treating all Malian music as one style.<ref name="oum-timbuktu" />

Selected recordings in MuGlobe:
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Cu4K7ecsc Yala] — [[Wassoulou]].
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIUZeXEgBWE Oumou Sangaré - Kamelemba & Saa Magni - La Cigale Paris 2018 - LIVE HD] — [[Wassoulou]].
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWCvQxkmPY0 Oumou Sangaré - Kamelaba - LIVE at Afrikafestival Hertme 2017] — [[Wassoulou]].

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