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World Music Legends
Orchestra Baobab
Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab—formed in 1970 and officially disbanded in 1987—now rides again, with most of its key players in place. The “new” Baobab debuted dramatically in London in May 2001, and by year’s end, the musicians had recorded their first new album in more than 20 years.
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World Music Features
Tinariwen
Tinariwen’s is a story of war and peace, separation and miraculous reunion, and extraordinary cultural change among a people whose very existence is premised on their resistance to the influences of outsiders.
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World Music Features
Hakim and Khaled
In February 2002, the first big, post-9/11 concert of North African pop music went down in New York City. Hakim, the toast of Cairo’s shaabi music, and Khaled, the king of Algerian rai, packed the Beacon Theatre. Global Rhythm was there.
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World Music Features
Amadou and Mariam
Amadou and Mariam have come upon a winning formula for blending the Bambara music of their ancestors with raw, rootsy rock ’n’ roll.
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World Music Features
Khaled
Algeria’s greatest pop singer, Khaled, settles down with a cigarette in the garden of the Beverly Hills Hilton. He’s just finished up the final work on the U.S. release of his new album, Ya Rayi (Wrasse).
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African Legends
Orchestra Baobab
Senegal’s Orchestra Baobab—formed in 1970 and officially disbanded in 1987—has been riding again since 2001, having recorded their first new album in more than 20 years.
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African Legends
Khaled
Raï began as a rural Algerian folk music that moved to the city and got streetwise. In Khaled’s hands in the 1980s, it was modernized and soon went on an international journey.
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World Music Features
Salif Keita
Mali’s greatest popular singer, Salif Keita, has come home to Africa. When he moved to France in the late 1970s, Keita was fed up with conservative attitudes forbidding Mande nobles like him to become musicians, and also with corrupt government officials, inferior recording studios, and all the other limitations faced by aspiring musicians in Africa at the time.
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World Music Features
Youssou N'Dour
After the North African orchestra sound of Egypt, Youssou N’Dour returns to form with Rokka Mi Rokka. N’Dour’s been around the block so many times that his hybrid of Western pop song aesthetics and African roots is deep in his bones. Nothing feels forced, and while some may still prefer the Youssou of yore (master of mbalax), that’s now ancient history.
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