Bombino, a young musician from Niger, makes music both ancient and contemporarywith percussion and vocal components that date back of the Sahara Desert's dunes. Born Omara Moctar, Bombino is of the ...

In a story too far-fetched for a Hollywood script, Tuareg singer-songwriter and guitarist Omara “Bombino” Moctar survived life on the run as a desert fugitive, only to emerge four years later as a ...

Launched in 2001 by Tuareg guitarists Keddou Ag Ossad and Sanou Ag Ahmed, founding members of the acclaimed world music outfit Tinariwen, Terakaft has honed a leaner, more stripped-down approach by ...

Mdou Moctar is the latest in a long line of Tuareg musicians to emerge from the Saharan region of Africa and find interest in other parts of the world. Before him, acts like Tamikrest, Bombino, ...

Mdou Moctar plays a style of desert blues called “ishumar,” which is technically a new genre. Rock ‘n’ roll audiences have begun to embrace the music of Moctar and his colleagues because there’s ...

Omara Moctar, globally known as “Bombino,” brought the sounds of music inspired by the vast Niger deserts to Los Angeles World Airports on Monday, Oct. 2. The Tuareg guitarist from Niger became known ...

FOR COSMOPOLITAN music lovers, the Tuareg people burst onto the scene in 2001 when their most prominent musical group, Tinariwen, kicked off an internationally acclaimed music festival outside of ...

"Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Omara “Bombino” ...