Senegalese music icon Baaba Maal releases first album in seven years

Senegalese singer-songwriter Baaba Maal releases his first album in seven years, “Being,” on March 31st.

“I’m so happy to be able share some piece of music with people and I was looking for that. But I did take my time to make the songs to become reality and to record them like we did, from Senegal to London to New York to – everywhere,” Maal told The Associated Press in a recent interview in London.

“After all these years playing music,…