Today’s song of the day comes to us from a group started in 1990 and comprised of a fusion of New York based musicians and some singers from across the pond in Senegal and other African countries. The collaboration appropriately called itself Africando. Their 2000 hit Mandali was released under the group’s new name, Africando All-Stars but went back to their original name in 2003 with the release of Martina.
Between the band’s inception and their latest release in 2006, they have had some big hits including ‘Yay Voy’, ‘Temedi’, ‘Mario’ and ‘Nina, Nina’ (a remake of Joe Cuba’s Fania hit). Just some of the songs you should check out at your favorite mp3 provider.
I was first introduced to this song by a friend who heard it while traveling abroad. Although these guys are African, the song is actually in the French language (I really only know enough French to know that it’s French 
) but the music is in the universal language of dance your @ss off. It’s just one of those songs you listen to when you are doing something fun.
Oh, one last thing… this is not the original video, but it had the best sound track so here is ‘Aicha’…