Pape Fall & African Salsa

Amadou Pape Fall was born on July 3,1947, in Rufisque, outside Dakar, Senegal. In 1980 Pape Fall quit the Star Band to form his own group, the Africa Band, which later became Nder de Dakar. With this band he released his first cassette, Nagou.

Four years later Pape Fall reunited with Ibra Kasse, father of Senegalese music and owner of the Miami Night Club and Star Band. This time the collaboration lasted eight years, until the death of Ibra Kasse in 1992. Pape Fall continued to tour with the band, now renamed the Kasse Band, until he created his own group, African Salsa in 1995. He released the highly acclaimed cassette Ke Jaraxam.

African Salsa celebrated its anniversary with a massive public response at the temple of arts in Dakar. Two years later African Salsa released their second cassette, Domou Nedeye.

African Salsa has since had remarkable success, and in 1998 the band made its first appearance in London, at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club and also at the African Centre at Covent Garden.

— Courtesy Calabash Music