Wally Badarou (born Waliou Jacques Daniel Isheola Badarou, 22 March 1955, Paris, France) is a musician from Benin. Badarou played with the British band Level 42.
Badarou helped organise the Kora All Africa Music Awards in 1997. He co-wrote and produced So Why, a charity album for the ICRC.
Discography
Solo
1979: Back to Scales Tonight
1984: Echoes
1985: Chief Inspector (EP) 1989: Words of a Mountain 1997: So Why 2001: Colors of Silence : Musical poetry for Yoga 2009: The Unnamed Trilogy
Movie scores
1981: Dickie Jobson: Countryman
1982: Nathalie Delon & Yves Deschamps: They Called It an Accident
1985: Hector Babenco: Kiss Of The SpiderWoman (additional music) 1991: Lol Creme: The Lunatic 1997: Idrissa Ouedraogo: Kini & Adams 1997: Don Letts & Rick Elgood: DanceHall Queen 1999: Chris Browne: Third World Cop 2000: John Berry: Boesman & Lena
Producer (and co-producer) 1979: Janic Prévost - J'veux d'la Tendresse 1981: Alain Chamfort - Amour Année Zéro 1983: Marianne Faithfull - A Child's Adventure (& co-writer) 1985: Level 42 - World Machine (& co-writer) 1986: Alain Chamfort - Tendres Fièvres (& co-writer) 1986: Fela Ransome Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me NonSense 1987: Level 42 - Running in the Family (& co-writer) 1988: Level 42 - Staring at the Sun (& co-writer) 1990: Level 42 - Guaranteed (& co-writer) 1993: Level 42 - Forever Now (& co-writer) 1995: Salif Keita - Folon 1996: Carlinhos Brown - AlfaGamaBetizado 1998: Yannick Noah & Zam Zam - Zam Zam 1998: Wasis Diop - Toxu 2000: Trilok Gurtu -The Beat Of Love (& co-writer) 2001: i Muvrini - Umani