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Sign\u00e9 chez Syllart, il produira cinq albums \u00e0 succ\u00e8s durant la d\u00e9cennie, dont <strong>Xiif<\/strong>, sorti en 1985. L\u00f4 y m\u00e9lange beat pops et traditionnels avec une recette \u00e9prouv\u00e9e, et des sons parfaitement dans l\u2019air du temps. Les synth\u00e9s \u2013 \u00e9videmment au DX7 \u2013 sont confi\u00e9s \u00e0 Manu Lima, tandis que Valery Lob\u00e9 tient la batterie et l\u2019on retrouve son complice Adama Faye \u00e0 la guitare. Sur <em>Xiif<\/em>, morceau titre aux accents blues folk, Isma\u00ebl L\u00f4 alerte sur les famines africaines, en Ethiopie et au Sahel. Pour le reste, les titres sont taill\u00e9s pour la danse, plong\u00e9s dans le mbalax (<em>Alal<\/em>, <em>Bode Gor<\/em>), proches de la transe traditionnelle (<em>Ceddo<\/em>) ou bien empruntant quelques motifs \u00e0 la rumba sur <em>Dioumaa<\/em>. Deux ans plus tard, son album Natt verra son plus grand succ\u00e8s \u00e0 ce jour, <em>Tadieu Bone<\/em>, incontestablement son titre le plus connu sur la sc\u00e8ne internationale.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3 \ud83c\udfa4 \ud83c\udfb6 \ud83c\udf0d \ud83e\udd41 Au d\u00e9but des ann\u00e9es 80, Isma\u00ebl L\u00f4 quitte le Super Diamono de Dakar, qu\u2019il a cofond\u00e9 avec Omar Pene, pour se lancer dans sa carri\u00e8re solo. Le chanteur s\u00e9n\u00e9galais garde de cette exp\u00e9rience, sa volont\u00e9 de moderniser les musiques traditionnelles, \u00e0 travers ce mbalax-pop qui le caract\u00e9risait. 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