- Michel K. Tsagli was born in 1968 in Dakar (Senegal). He left his native Senegal at age 15 to join his family in France. Tsagli graduated school in Paris where he studied computer engineering. But soon after he made a drastic move pursuing a music career. For ten years Tsagli played guitar in both Paris and than New York where he moved permanently in 1992. In New York he enrolled into NYU and studied sound production.
Tsagli worked on various projects including documentaries, commercials, feature films, reality television and fashion. Among Tsagli's film projects are feature film entitled "Abebe Bikila", the life story of the Ethiopian born Olympic marathon champion (filmed in Ethiopia ) as well as a documentary "Ghana 50th Independence" shot on locations in Ghana and Togo, a film that explored Marcus Garvey's influence on Ghana's first elected president, Kwame Krumah.
One of the Tsagli's recent projects TEY (directed by a prominent French / Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis) is a critically acclaimed production which participated in competition at Berlinale 2012 and since then won numerous awards.
Besides the professional base in NY Tsagli also co-founded CINEGAL FILMS in his native Dakar (Senegal), the company which specializes in sound production, music scores, sound design and is successfully migrating between American, European and African film industries.
Michel Tsagli work have been featured on Lifetime, HBO, VH1, Speed Channel and Canal +. In addition to his native Wolof Tsagli is fluent in English and French.
- IMDb mini biography by: Michel Tsagli
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