Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's almost impossible to talk about world music with it not resembling poetry. Sounds become similes of our emotional experience.

This year's model of the Monterey jazz festival, now up to its 66th annual, felt overall like one of the strongest and most balanced of the past decade. Salient highlights included a stunning ...

Oumou Sangaré plays at the Old Town School of Folk Music. Credit: Courtesy the artist It’s been nearly 15 years since beloved Malian diva Omou Sangaré performed in Chicago, and her return is cause for ...

One of Mali's most celebrated singers, Oumou Sangaré began her career as an outspoken champion for the rights of women. On her 1989 debut, Moussolou, she offered sharp critiques of practices such as ...

When Oumou Sangaré—the globally celebrated Malian artist and a lifelong advocate for African culture and women’s empowerment—recently visited Ethiopia, she was struck by the unprecedented ...

It's almost impossible to talk about world music with it not resembling poetry. Sounds become similes of our emotional experience. T.S. Eliot once said that poetry is “felt before it is understood,” ...