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a singer. Hasse Walli was about ten years old when he started playing drums. He drummed in various bands in early 1960s such as The
Islanders, The Electric Five and Nameless. Gradually Walli switched from drums to electric guitar. After Nameless had split, Walli started as a solo guitarist in The
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Teranga marked the end of Hasse Walli's Afro period. When he returned from
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Jamming with local musicians at clubs, Walli practiced hard to get into the heart of this musical style quite differing from the
Western genres of rock, blues and jazz he had already learned to master. Hasse Walli played with some musicians who had been performing with the legendary
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By 1988 Walli felt he had finally learned enough to compose and arrange Mbalax music and start an all-African band for this (Walli's earlier Afro bands had mostly consisted of
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came out in 1989, receiving excellent reviews in world music circles. Walli and
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folk song. The band had an enormous live success and Hasse Walli stayed in
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