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With a focus on music from the Middle East and North Africa, Habibi Funk co-founder and curator Jannis Stürtz and his team have been reissuing some of the most unexpected and exciting releases of the ...

Guitars. The soft-spoken Sissoko and Ségal share a powerful link with tradition, with guiding teachers, and with similarly rich-voiced instruments. FILE When kora-player Ballaké Sissoko approached ...

Note: This article was originally published in April 2005. It was created at a time when African music was on the cusp of becoming an increasingly large part of the Western pop culture landscape.

Alex Cuba burst onto the scene by winning a Juno in 2006. He picked up another in 2008, and a Grammy in 2010. Since then, it’s been full steam ahead for the Cuban born singer-songwriter, wowing ...