caption website associated_acts years_active birth_place label article_title background birth_date instrument genre image origin name occupation
lô at mumes festival , 2007 http://www.ismael-lo.com super diamono 1970s -- present dogondoutchi , niger barclay records mango syllart records ismaël lô
 solo_singer 30 august 1956 guitar , harmonica worldbeat mbalax afro-pop world music ismael lo.jpg senegal ismaël lô singer , songwriter , musician
ismaël lô

ismaël lô -lrb- also ismaël lo -rrb- is a senegalese musician and actor .
he was born in dogondoutchi , niger on 30 august 1956 , to a senegalese father and a nigerien mother .
shortly after lo 's birth the family returned to senegal where they settled in the town of rufisque , near the capital dakar .
he plays guitar and harmonica .
in the 1970s , lo studied at the school of art in dakar .
he later joined the popular group super diamono , but left in 1984 to start a solo career .
over the next four years lo recorded five popular solo albums .
in 1990 , lo signed a recording deal with barclay and recorded in france his sixth solo album , `` ismael lo '' .
thanks to the success of the single `` tajabone '' the album became a hit in the european charts .
the album launched lo 's international career .
`` iso '' was recorded and released in 1994 , and also became a success .
the album contains soft guitar melodies and traditional senegalese mbalax .
the following year lo toured in africa .
the compilation album `` jammu africa '' was released in 1996 .
the song `` without blame '' is a duet with marianne faithfull .
lo 's song `` tajabone '' was featured in pedro almodóvar 's film `` all about my mother '' .
in 2002 , he was made a knight of the legion of honor .
his latest album `` sénégal '' was recorded in dakar , paris and london .
lo says of it , `` giving this album the title sénégal was my way of paying tribute to my own country , in recognition of all its gifts to me '' .
in 1997 , lo starred in moussa sene absa 's film ` tableau ferraille ' -lrb- iron landscape -rrb- .
the film `` shake hands with the devil -lrb- 2007 film -rrb- '' , about the rwandan genocide , starts with lo 's song `` jammu africa '' .
