Wrestling is a compulsory ritual of manhood for young men of the Senegalese Jola ethnic group. Featuring signature rhythmic patterns, pre- and post-match dance styles, and friendly song competitions, it is also an intrinsically musical social field. Every young Jola man has personal songs made about his wrestling career, which not only reflect his strength and bravery but inspire him to embody those values. These songs accompany men through their lives, becoming markers of gendered reputations that persist long after their wrestling days are over. In this presentation, I demonstrate that wrestling music teaches young men to envoice Jola masculine aesthetics. Specifically, wrestlers learn to “sing hard” (kakijiyen laal) and “sing abundantly” (kakijiyen gnë), producing deep, resonant vocal timbres that both index and vocally enact masculine ideals of strength (sembe) and vigor (eser). In turn, singing collectively in a community of men feeds back to publicly affirm Jola masculine values and vocal aesthetics. In this sense, wrestling songs link individual lives and ways of vocalizing with broader cultural values. The heightened stakes of ritual performance ingrains these gendered vocal norms so powerfully that they carry forward into everyday speech contexts, teaching young Jolas that they must “speak like a man” and verbally “demonstrate rigor” at all times to generate respect. Based on interviews and observations of wrestling events during fifteen years of fieldwork in southern Senegal, this presentation contributes to voice studies as well as foundational research on athletics, ritual, and gender.