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Rokia Traore’s family members was both a blessing and a curse on her behalf musical profession. Her dad was a diplomat and she spent her years as a child traveling many continents — Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Belgium, and France. There she was subjected to a number of varieties of music, …

Boubacar Traoré has truly gone from getting the tone of voice of Mali to obscurity, and bounced back again to become an internationally respected vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter — overall, not a poor career arc. Given birth to in Kayes, within the sandy western of Mali, his enthusiasm as a …

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Sidi Touré is somewhat popular in his local Mali as very much for his family’s name and royal lineage for his music. Touré, very much like fellow countryman Ali Farka Touré (though he’s from Gao, not really Bamako), plays a genuine droning sort of songhai blues. …