![]() I also enjoy listening to Swedish artists like Lisa Ekdal. I listen to loads of stuff though, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Chance the Rapper – you name it. Musically, I adore Bruno Mars, especially live, because his vibe with his band and his performance is so amazing and translates so well. I have a little folder in my camera roll where I save ideas. With writing in general, I can be in the club and get out my voice notes, or I’ll see a word and I’ll write it down in my notes, see a painting – it can literally be anything. How has your sound developed in the past few years? Who are some of your inspirations when it comes to music? I don’t really get nervous, I’ve lived with my songs and they’ve been my little babies, and now they’re the world’s to take care of. But now I know if I feel a song is right, and that if someone feels something from it, I’m happy. I think now that I write my songs myself I don’t have a problem if someone sends me a song and I vibe to it and feel something, as long as I have creative space to change things. You just released your single ‘Comfortable’ earlier this month, what has the response been like? Were you nervous leading up to the release? But music has always been my main thing and I knew that at the end of the day, whatever happened to me I’d always get back up and continue fighting for my dream. I think since I was so young I was quite confused, and after winning I felt like I was going to become Beyoncé, but then nothing happened. I think that today I’m so ready and so comfortable with myself as an artist, because of those years and those ups and downs I went through at such a young age.ĭid you find it hard to find your path following The X-Factor? ![]() Parallel to that I used my Instagram, I hate the word “influencer,” but I used that to fund my trips to LA and London to be able to put myself in the room with writers and producers, and to figure my sound out. I felt like I took like a 5 year break after it, because I went to college to study economic entrepreneurship. How has your career changed since The X-Factor? How have you evolved as a musician?ĭuring the show they gave you songs and we’d sing covers, and after that I went into the studio trying to figure out my sound. After that I signed to Sony Music and I released two songs, and it was great although I was so young. But we went to the audition and one thing led to another, and I did the show and ended up winning at the age 15. When I was 14 I saw an ad for The X-Factor Sweden, so I told my mom that we had to go and she said no because it was my cousins birthday. My mum was a ballet dancer as well, so I also did ballet for a long time. Growing up, I went to classical music school and did a lot of dance classes. I never let my mum watch TV because I always wanted to stand in front of it and perform. Poulo’s conscious lyrics about community concerns speak to the distinctive identity of her broadly-flung people.I’ve always loved to be at the centre of attention. This is a relatively rare example of Malian Peulh music played in a modern, cosmopolitan context, reflecting the mixed society of Dilly, where Bambara, Soninke and Peulh-speaking people live among each other. Shapeshifting layers of rhythm and woody overtones match Poulo’s commanding voice in a jocular yet deliberate dance. On Poulo Warali, she and her band combine the hallmarks of Peulh music-warm flute floating over cross-rhythmic n’goni (lute) riffs and resonant calabash gourd hand percussion-with broader Malian sounds like lightly-distorted guitar and a heavier, rollicking inertia. After several locally released tapes and CDs, this record is Poulo's first internationally-distributed record. So, set in motion by a surprising series of events, young Poulo's entree into the music world was auspicious as she gained popularity across the region. Coulibaly herself was brought into music by forces outside her control when a regional music contest required an entry from her village and she was chosen to be a singer. But Poulo's mother's co-wife is Inna Baba Coulibaly, who is a celebrated singer most Malian music fans know. It's not very common to find a female singer performing publicly among the Peulh. Awesome Tapes From Africa is proud to release Poulo's newest recording of highly virtuosic folk-pop, fresh from the studio, broadcasting her vision of Peulh music beyond the grazing grounds and central markets of her remote home region in southwestern Mali. Awa Poulo is a singer of Peulh origin from Dilly commune, Mali, near the border with Mauritania.
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