During the course of the 1980s the pioneering French keyboardist and synth innovator Wally Badarou played on a string of chart-topping singles and albums for artists as varied as Grace Jones, Talking Heads, Robert Palmer, Level 42, Mick Jagger, Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Cliff, Gwen Guthrie, Julio Iglesias and more besides.
"The rest, whether it be Pop Muzik, Addicted to Love that wasn't meant to be a hit Burning Down the House I was like, Oh, it's a hit. How interesting.'"
"His musical dexterity was also born of circumstance. His parents, who listened to classical music, moved the family to Benin (then Dahomey) when Badarou was seven. By the time he returned to Paris in 1971, aged 16, he had synthesised those two cultures African and European before I even got into synthesisers."
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