Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Nationality
American
British
Occupations
Journalist
music critic
Kelefa T. Sanneh (born 1976) is an American journalist and music critic. From 2000 to 2008, he wrote for The New York Times, covering the rock and roll, hip-hop, and pop music scenes.[1] Since 2008 he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.[2] Sanneh published Major labels: A history of popular music in seven genres in 2021.
Kelefa T. Sanneh (born 1976) is an American journalist and music critic. From 2000 to 2008, he wrote for The New York Times, covering the rock and roll...
List of works by or about KelefaSanneh, American journalist and music critic. Sanneh, Kelefa (2021). Major labels : a history of popular music in seven...
Seek the darkness and hell and you will find nothing but evolution. KelefaSanneh wrote, "it starts with three long and smudgy midtempo songs, with rudimentary...
in 56th place. Steve Huey of AllMusic called the song a "standard". KelefaSanneh wrote, "What is memorable is the way Osbourne evokes not merely war's...
hundred most important American musical works of the 20th century. KelefaSanneh said of the song, "I loved it because it seemed like the beginning of...
personal stylistic shift, adopting a distinctive mullet and a look that KelefaSanneh, profiling Wallen's rise in a piece for The New Yorker, described as...
exhaustive statistical proof is undeniably racist." The journalist KelefaSanneh, in response to "Facing Facts About Race," wrote, "It's strange, then...
the New Yorker critic Sasha Frere-Jones, The New York Times critic KelefaSanneh, the Baltimore City Paper's Jason Torres, and appearing on a panel of...
2017. Sanneh, Kelefa (December 6, 2005). "Set to Put New Orleans Rap Back on Top". The New York Times. Retrieved June 26, 2009. Sanneh, Kelefa (January...
their children Sia Sanneh, a senior attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative, and KelefaSanneh, staff writer for The New Yorker. Sanneh converted to Christianity...
"inevitable slur, his words ring loud and clear". The New York Times' KelefaSanneh described him as "a wounded hero beating the odds" and it "gave him...
vigilance." In an August 2019 article for The New Yorker, the columnist KelefaSanneh characterized DiAngelo as "perhaps the country's most visible expert...
pop music despite whatever artifice is needed. In 2004, the critic KelefaSanneh offered a definition of rockists: "Someone who reduces rock 'n' roll...
singing and Judaism's hazzan style of songful prayer. The New York Times' KelefaSanneh wrote that "His sound owes a lot to early dancehall reggae stars like...
systems and culture. In a 2019 article for The New Yorker, the columnist KelefaSanneh characterized DiAngelo as "perhaps the country's most visible expert...
speak for itself is, ironically, their biggest selling point of all?" KelefaSanneh of The New York Times criticized the lyrical content of the album, referring...
May 20, 2003 concert the Madison Square Garden, which was reported by KelefaSanneh of The New York Times as an "extraordinary two-hour performance," and...