Was fortunate enough to get to see Oumou Sangare in the Netherlands recently. She sings, carries herself and for all intents is, a queen.
(I won't qualify it with the nails-on-a-blackboard expression that begins with Y and ends with 'aaaaas'.)
It was a very classy venue and at first I thought it'd be far too polite and no one would dance, but we were then beckoned to come up to the front and do just that. I needed no persuasion! She had a really tight French band behind her and two great female backing singers, one from Burkina Faso and one from South Africa.
There was a little bit of a language barrier as she primarily addressed the audience in French, her most fluent second language, coming from Mali. She did her best to converse in English (which she felt was bad, it wasn't, even if her vocab may have been a little limited!) and to say Danke/Dank U for her primarily Dutch audience.
This weird dude came up to the front of the stage at one point and started throwing Euro banknotes at her (real ones) which was a little awkward! The stagehand picked them all up to give back to him afterwards (they were left on stage by everyone) and he started speaking to the stagehand to try and engineer a meeting with Oumou
All in all, was a great night.