We end our week’s tour of Mali with Tinariwen, geniuses of the “desert blues.”
The founding songwriter of Tinariwen is Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, son of Tuareg rebel, formed the band living with other Malian Tuaregs in refugee camps and in exile in Algeria and Libya. The band rose to international prominence in the late ’90s and have brought music from the Sahara, and awareness of Tuareg music and culture, to international audiences ever since. Tinariwen is definitely one of All Around This World’s favorites — watch this video and you’ll start to see why.
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