(headline image: Noura Mint Seymali – Photo by Bechir Malum) Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star in Mauritania and one of its most…
Artist Profiles: Noura Mint Seymali
Category: Artist Profiles
Nancy Vieira, A Singer Deeply Grounded in Cape Verdean Tradition
(headline image: Nancy Vieira – Photo by Rita Carmo) Nancy Vieira was born in 1975 in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau to Cape Verdean parents. She later relocated…
Artist Profiles: ZenKwun
Tasiwanese band ZenKwun combines Buddhist, nankuan, and peikuan (various forms of traditional Chinese music), Hakka, and Mongolian music with Western rock through the use of…
Artist Profiles: Alena Murang
Singer-songwriter, sape player, and educator Alena Murang is a Borneo-born Kelabit Dayak-European living in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), who sings in the endangered language of the…
Artist Profiles: Dendê
Dendê is a Brazilian percussionist, singer, composer, bandleader, teacher, and multi-instrumentalist. He grew up in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil, raised by a single mother in…
Loccisano and De Carolis, Disseminators of Chitarra Battente
Francesco Loccisano and Marcello De Carolis are two guitarists from southern Italy who share a passion for a traditional folk guitar called “chitarra battente”. “When…
Artist Profiles: Berklee Indian Ensemble
The Berklee Indian Ensemble began in 2011, founded by Annette Philip, the first Indian musician appointed as a faculty member at Berklee College of Music. …
Artist Profiles: Omar Sosa
Omar Sosa was born in Camagüey, Cuba on April 10, 1965. He studied at the Escuela Provincial de Música in Camagüey from 1970 to 1977.…
Artist Profiles: Rebolú
Colombian roots band Rebolú was formed by Ronald Polo and Morris Cañate, two Colombian musicians living in New York City. The two artists initially met…
Artist Profiles: África Negra
Conjunto África Negra was conceived in the early 1970s, when a butcher from the town of São Tomé (the capital city of the island nation…