SomOne Music
Studio & label - Senegalese coast
Music has no borders, but it needs places. Places where artists meet, create, and pass on what they know.
SomOne Music is an independent label co-founded with Natty Jean. Two bases, one vision: building bridges between artists from around the world, under the baobabs. SomOne Music is also a registered nonprofit (loi 1901) in France.
Melanzé Hub
Somone, Petite Côte
The permanent studio, at the heart of the Melanzé compound. A space for creation, residency and training. Opening 2026.
Mobile container
BBZU travelling studio
A full recording studio inside a 20-foot shipping container. The music goes where the artists are.
What we do
Creative residencies
Welcoming artists from around the world to create in a unique setting between ocean and baobabs.
Local production
Discovering and supporting local talent - recording, mixing, artistic direction.
Artistic bridges
Connecting scenes, crossing influences. Bringing together those who were never meant to meet.
Youth training
Passing on the craft - production, sound engineering, digital music - to young people in Somone and beyond.
The place
Melanzé Hub - Somone, Petite Côte
Music videos
Direction, production and artistic direction.
Natty Jean
Spice It Up
Natty Jean
Bamako, 2007. I had set up a makeshift studio in my NGO room. Natty Jean came by, and we recorded his first rough demos on whatever gear we had. I was one of the first to believe in him, to back him up.
Since then, nearly twenty years of friendship, thousands of miles travelled together, and a shared conviction: music is a tool for transformation. SomOne Music is the natural outcome of that journey.
Collaborate with SomOne Music
You're an artist looking for a creative residency? You have a music or audiovisual project between Europe and Africa? Let's talk.
Beyond the label, I also compose my own tracks. Instrumentals, beats, songs — the sonic notebook of the Baobab Man.