Star Number One has been played on NTS shows including Paradise Bangkok , with Waalo first played on 12 July 2016.

Star Number One de Dakar was a Dakar based band formed in 1959/early 1960 as Star Band by Ibra Kassé to play at his Miama night club on the occasion of Senegal's independence day on 3. Aug. 1960.

"One of the first musicians working for Kassé was Mady Konaté, a sax player; he played together with some other musicians in an orchestra called Le Tropical Jazz. Then the horn players Dexter Johnson and Bob Armstrong as well as Mbaye Mabusso and guitar player José…