This much I know: Baaba Maal

The musician, 58, on Senegal, smoking and following your dreamMy mother was a wise woman. She used to tell me to wake up every morning unafraid of life – she told me that life can be hard but goodness always prevails.I realised I had a voice at 10. I sang at a ceremony in my hometown and everyone turned to listen. I knew then that my life would be about entertaining people.Music has taken me everywhere. My father was a soldier who fought in the Second World War. We were close, but he was disap...

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