(headline image: Ustad Noor Bakhsh – Photo by Jan-Eric Wendt) Ustad Noor Bakhsh is a renowned musician from Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. Bakhsh is particularly well…
Benju Virtuoso Ustad Noor Bakhsh
Category: Artist Profiles
Iranian Tar and Setar Maestro Ali Kazemi
Ali Kazemi is an Iranian tar and setar player, composer, educator, and scholar. Kazemi’s scholarly work on tahrir, a style of Iranian classical singing, was…
Sufi Musician Juman Latif
Juman Latif, also known as Fakir Juman Shah, after the term for a Muslim ascetic, is a Sufi musician and educator from the Sindh region…
Tunisian Tarab Composer and Vocalist Ghalia Benali
Ghalia Benali is a singer, composer, actress, dancer and visual artist from Tunisia. Her work as a singer is predominantly concerned with innovating within the…
Lebanese Buzuq Player Farah Kaddour
Farah Kaddour is a buzuq player, composer, and music scholar based in Beirut who integrates her artistic practice into music related projects as a program…
Kora Player and guitarist Senny Camara
Senny Camara is a kora and guitar player, singer, composer, and sound engineer from Senegal. Camara fell in love with the kora at seven years…
Kamilya Jubran, Palestinian singer, songwriter, and Multi-Instrumentalist
(headline image: Kamilya Jubran – Photo by Juri Hiensch) Kamilya Jubran was born in 1962 in Acre (Akka) to Palestinian parents. Her father, Elias, taught…
Greek Oud Maestro Kyriakos Kalaidzidis
(headline image: Kyriakos Kalaitzidis – Photo by Foteini Kalaitzidou) Kyriakos Kalaidzidis (Greece) is an oud player, composer, and music scholar. Kalaidzidis is the artistic director…
Fraderita, Rising Flamenco Rumba Star
Fraderita is a singer from Madrid who has revolutionized the Spanish rumba and flamenco pop music scene. His soulful, message-filled lyrics have sold out every…
Raule, Purveyor of Flamenco, Pop, and Funk
Raule (Raúl Rubiales, Jerez de la Frontera, 1984) is an independent musician, composer, and singer who fuses flamenco, pop, and funk. He began his solo…