African Voices is a weekly show that highlights Africa’s most engaging personalities, exploring the lives and passions of people who rarely open themselves up to the camera. For Omara Moctar, the ...

Bombino, the desert bluesman who helped popularize the eclectic, electric sound of the Sahara, showed off his guitar genius Saturday night in the Finger Lakes. The soft-spoken but strong-strumming ...

Whenever Bombino releases a new record, it tops the charts for world music. Over the past five years, the Tuareg singer and guitarist from Niger, has become one of the most recognized artists from ...

On a recent night in New York City, an ecstatic crowd jammed the dance floor of the club Brooklyn Bowl to see one of the world’s greatest living blues guitarists. He doesn’t hail from the Mississippi ...

When the Tuareg people of northern Niger once again decided to take up arms in the face of government neglect and repression in 2007, Omara “Bombino” Moctar joined the fight with his guitar. Like the ...

Omara "Bombino" Moctar is out with his seventh album, Sahel, which is named after his homeland. On the project he pays tribute to his fellow Tuareg, who are indigenous to the eponymous African region ...

Among the best discoveries of 2011 was Bombino, a 31-year-old Tuareg guitarist with an Italian-inspired nickname, a life that in short order forced him to take up residence in four different countries ...

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Last fall, Omara Moctar, known to most by his nickname Bombino, decamped to the thickly-forested hills near Woodstock, New York to record the follow-up to Nomad, the 2013 Dan Auerbach-produced LP that ...

"Oulhin" is pure and bare-bones, a groove you can ride to the end of the earth. By Morgan Enos Nigerien guitarist Bombino (real name: Omar Moctar) may be singing in the indigenous language of Tamasheq ...