Indian American musician Saraswathi “Sara” Ranganathan is an Indian Classical veena performer and cross-cultural musical ambassador. She was born in Mysore and grew up in…
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Artist Profiles: Karima Skalli
Moroccan artist Karima Skalli is one of the leading classical Arabic music vocalists, inspired by the great voices of classical Egyptian music. At the age…
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Goumour Almoctar, beter known as Bombino, was born on January 1, 1980, in Tidene, Niger, a settlement of nomadic Tuaregs located about 80 kilometers to…
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The Grupo Cimarrón ensemble is known for their explosive música llanera (plains music) and fast-paced, triple-meter joropo. They live up to the meaning of their…
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Faith (CheMuphuwa) Mussa was born in August 1985 in Ndirande, Malawi. Faith began playing hand-made gallon guitars when he was just 10 years-old in Blantyre,…
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Olena Podluzhnaya, with the stage name UUTAi, is a singer and khomus player from Yakutia, Russia. Ms. Podluzhnaya says: “My native Republic is the world…
View More Artist Profiles: Olena Podluzhnaya UUTAiArtist Profiles: Dmitry Paramonov
Dmitri Paramonov is a renowned expert and researcher of Russian traditional culture. He’s also a musician, a scholar of various Russian traditional instruments, rune singer…
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Daniel Sandén-Warg was born in 1977 in Østersund, Sweden. He grew up in Karlstad, where he started playing the guitar at an early age, Jimi…
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Harald Bauweraerts grew up in a musical family and therefore had the opportunity to learn to play the hurdy gurdy at the very young age…
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Esperanza Fernández Vargas was born in Sevilla in 1966. She has gypsy blood in her veins. Her family has long included guitarists, dancers and singers…
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