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Bombino

From Niger Republic

Prince of the desert blues

For a young man born into a nomadic goat-herding family on the outer reaches of the Sahara Desert, Omara Moctar has kept pretty exalted company. Now more familiarly known as Bombino, this is a man who's not only lined up next to Keith Richards and Charlie Watts in the recording studio, but who's also accompanied Angelina Jolie for a week-long tour of his home patch of Agadez in Niger, effectively acting as her own personal on-the-road troubadour. For a region that's known no small measure of hardship and challenges (whether produced by the natural world or by the hand of man), Bombino is a much-needed good-news story. Having earned his stripes in the Touareg outfit Tidawt, he's equally at home as the intimate singer around the campfire or the diamond-hard desert rocker. Either way, there's an urgency about him and his music. "I can assure you," he sings, "that patience is no good."
(Biography written by Nige Tassell 2011)

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