{"id":8517,"date":"2025-09-26T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2025\/09\/26\/cheikh-lo-celebrates-50-years-in-music-with-new-album-maame\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:00:27","slug":"cheikh-lo-celebrates-50-years-in-music-with-new-album-maame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/2025\/09\/26\/cheikh-lo-celebrates-50-years-in-music-with-new-album-maame\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheikh L\u00f4 Celebrates 50 Years in Music With New Album, Maame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>[Afropop] It&rsquo;s been some 10 years since Senegalese maestro extraordinaire Cheikh L\u00f4 has released an album of new songs. And for this one, he&rsquo;s pulled out all the stops. Maame (pronounced \u00ab\u00a0mahm\u00a0\u00bb) is a celebration of L\u00f4&rsquo;s 50-year anniversary in music. You can hear Banning Eyre&rsquo;s audio review of the album here. Meanwhile, Banning reached L\u00f4 by Zoom in Dakar as he was rolling out the new album in a series of concerts there. Here&rsquo;s their conversation, lightly edited for clarity. Thanks to Pavel Smid<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Afropop] It&rsquo;s been some 10 years since Senegalese maestro extraordinaire Cheikh L\u00f4 has released an album of new songs. And for this one, he&rsquo;s pulled out all the stops. Maame (pronounced \u00ab\u00a0mahm\u00a0\u00bb) is a celebration of L\u00f4&rsquo;s 50-year anniversary in music. You can hear Banning Eyre&rsquo;s audio review of the album here. Meanwhile, Banning reached &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-8517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-senegal","tag-sunugal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/senegal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}