Senegalese singer, songwriter and percussionist Heavy Man Ibou brings West African music at its finest to the stages of the world. The charismatic musician has no need to shy away from comparisons with better-known colleagues such as Youssou N`Dour.
Born in 1973 in Rosso on the border river between Mauritania and Senegal into a family of griots (singers, poets, instrumentalists, storytellers), Heavy Man Ibou today combines in his own music not only traditional and modern African music styles (Mbalax, Jaguar, Zouk, Afrobeat) with African-American soul, gospel, folk, reggae and R’n’B as well as a breeze of Latino sounds, he also sings in several languages: Wolof, Lingala, French English, German.
In his native country Senegal he worked together with the guitarist of Orchestre Baobab, with Ombre Zion, True Waz, Shaqtad. In 2000 he won the competition of the festival “La Roue des Concerts” in Mauritania, in 2005 he was considered one of the best acts of the festival “Africa Coeur”. In 2015, “Nouvelle Ère” was released in Dakar as the first album under his own name.
In Europe, Heavy Man Ibou performs with his German band Xarrittyii (friends) from Chiemgau, consisting of Thomas Kraus (guitars, flute), Philip Wipfler (electric bass, double bass), Stefan Weissleder (keyboards) and Wolfgang “Woody” Klausner (drums, percussion). www.heavymanibou.com.
Advance ticket sales at €19.50 at Ticketbüro Prien, tel. 08051 965660 and ticketservice@tourismus.prien.de. Children up to and including 12 years are free, but need a ticket. Young people up to 17 years pay 12 €.
The concert takes place in the context of the UBUNTU week in Prien.
Tickets at the box office: 22 €
Drinks will be sold by Vision Yamalé e.V. and catering will be provided by Landgasthof Hittenkirchen with the finest African street food from 6.30 pm.