Wally Badarou was born in Paris, where his physician parents were educated and his father later served as ambassador from their West African homeland of Cotonon Benin (formerly Dahomey). Although he planned a career as a pilot, he was seduced by synthesizers and rock & roll, eventually becoming a well-known session keyboardist in England and his own Nassau, Bahamas, studio.

Badarou's early career included work with M (on the hit "Pop Music"), Joe Cocker, Herbie Hancock, and Island Records artists like Grace Jones, Black Uhuru, and the British funk band Level 42. In addition to his production and keyboard work for Level 42, he has done several film scores, most notably Kiss of the Spider Woman.

You can hear both the rhythmic sensitivity of his African heritage and the harmonic sensibility of his classical training in his music.November 2009, Wally Badarou comes back to music with "Fisherman", a 15 minutes funk instrumental that he sells directly from his website using the GetJuke technology.

"Fisherman" is the first extract from an upcoming trilogy that he wishes to unveil to the public "song by song" before releasing it under a physical format.