Wally Badarou

Wally Badarou (born Waliou Jacques Daniel Isheola Badarou, 22 March 1955, Paris, France) is a musician from Benin.  Badarou played with the British band Level 42.

Badarou helped organise the Kora All Africa Music Awards in 1997.  He co-wrote and produced So Why, a charity album for the ICRC.

Discography

Solo
1979: Back to Scales Tonight
1984: Echoes
1985: Chief Inspector (EP)
1989: Words of a Mountain
1997: So Why
2001: Colors of Silence : Musical poetry for Yoga
2009: The Unnamed Trilogy

Movie scores
1981: Dickie Jobson: Countryman
1982: Nathalie Delon & Yves Deschamps: They Called It an Accident
1985: Hector Babenco: Kiss Of The SpiderWoman (additional music)
1991: Lol Creme: The Lunatic
1997: Idrissa Ouedraogo: Kini & Adams
1997: Don Letts & Rick Elgood: DanceHall Queen
1999: Chris Browne: Third World Cop
2000: John Berry: Boesman & Lena

Producer (and co-producer)
1979: Janic Prévost - J'veux d'la Tendresse
1981: Alain Chamfort - Amour Année Zéro
1983: Marianne Faithfull - A Child's Adventure (& co-writer)
1985: Level 42 - World Machine (& co-writer)
1986: Alain Chamfort - Tendres Fièvres (& co-writer)
1986: Fela Ransome Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me NonSense
1987: Level 42 - Running in the Family (& co-writer)
1988: Level 42 - Staring at the Sun (& co-writer)
1990: Level 42 - Guaranteed (& co-writer)
1993: Level 42 - Forever Now (& co-writer)
1995: Salif Keita - Folon
1996: Carlinhos Brown - AlfaGamaBetizado
1998: Yannick Noah & Zam Zam - Zam Zam
1998: Wasis Diop - Toxu
2000: Trilok Gurtu  -The Beat Of Love (& co-writer)
2001: i Muvrini - Umani

References

Category:1955 births
Category:Living people
Category:Beninese musicians
Category:Musicians from Paris