Results for "Rokia Traore"

Rokia Traore

Fatoumata Diawara at Nourse Theater

by Harry S. Pariser
May 5, 2014

Fatoumata Diawara Nourse Theater Mali Fest San Francisco, CA April 18, 2014 A buzz was in the air among those assembled at San Francisco's Nourse Theater for the first night of Mali Fest, a set of two concerts which featured two distinct acts. This initial evening headlined the multitalented singer, ...

Live in Paris

Featuring the music of Rokia Traore
Duration: 11:28
April 16, 2013

The African Folk Soul of Bongos Ikwue

January 8, 2013

The 1970’s were an extremely fertile era for music. In America, progressive soul and funk broke new ground while London spawned the punk rock scene and Kingston, Jamaica gave the world roots reggae. In Nigeria, an extraordinarily diverse and dynamic cultural scene yielded not only Fela’s Afrobeat and juju’s peak with Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey ...

Rokia Traorè

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 9, 2008

Milano, Rolling Stone, 12.06.2008 La musica di Rokia Traorè getta le sue radici nell'Africa, più specificamente nel Mali, ma si discosta molto da quella dei suoi conterranei più legati alla tradizione (stiamo pensando ad esempio a Salif Keita o a Oumou Sangare). Del resto, e bene ha fatto la cantante a ricordarlo nel corso del concerto, ...

Bowmbo

By Rokia Traore

Label: Nonesuch Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: M'Bifo; Sara; K?'t

Rokia Traor: Bowmbo

by Eyal Hareuveni
September 8, 2005

Rokia Traoré presents an entirely different role model for an African female singer. She reflects on her Malian tradition and sings exclusively in her native language, Bamanan, which she chose because of its particular richness in metaphor and texture. But as she declares on “K”tê Don," from her third release, Bowmboï: “I respect my ancestors/But tradition ...