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Chris Murtagh Newcastle upon Tyne Over the last 3 years I have promoted Nuru Kane 6 times which says it all. Each audience was totally enthrawled within minutes by his musicianship, vocal & dance ability and his natural stage presence. He is an obvious star but also a gentleman with no pretentions. His first album, Sigil, has set a high standard and compares with the very best.
The young, charismatic, strikingly handsome Senegalese musician Nuru Kane is sitting in the office of his manager Pete Holden's flat in a Bermondsey tower block, looking out over London's grey skyline. He's trying to explain the name of his new album Sigil, but we're having trouble. Kane has only spoken English cohesively for a year, and his French-African accent slides words together.
Like his distant ancestors the Fula people, Nuru Kane has always had a nomadic spirit. Today, the child of the Dakar medina has moved on to a small village in the Puy-de-Dôme region in the heart of France, where he has been living for over a year. The village itself comprises little more than a hundred inhabitants, some cows and a few tractors.
“On my return from England where I was lucky enough to play my music, I wondered whether I wanted to stay in Paris. My brother invited me down to where he lives, in the Auvergne, and I fell in love with the region. What I liked first was that there was less stress. And then I discovered a different way of interacting with people. I like that,” explains Nuru Kane, who refers to himself as sénégaulois ( Sene-Gaullish ).
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