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Installed in France since his adolescence, the musician Hervé Samb offers a heterogeneous music, mixing standards of Western music with his Senegalese inspirations.
Through his music, Hervé Samb expresses the best of his country, Senegal. In Paris, he likes to walk in the Goutte-d’Or district. “Paris is like home for any African when you come here“, he laughs. Still a teenager when he arrived in France, he discovered his passion for music. “When you live in a big capital like Dakar, you are outward looking, the United States, America, Europe. But it was when I came to Paris that I realized the beauty of my culture“, he explains.
Mix Bach, jazz and Senegalese music
Bearer of the concept of sabar jazz, Hervé Samb uses it to structure his melodies around Senegalese percussion. “Through my music, I manage to have some experiences that are very, very personal, or I take for example Johann Sebastian Bach, whom I adore […], or else I will take jazz standards, which I will mix and which I will senegalize. Instead of speaking English, they will speak Wolof“, he summarizes.