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 ...

A small white car, branded with the words "Groupe Bambino" and a crudely drawn electric guitar, is revving its wheels deeper and deeper into the soft sand of a side alley somewhere on the ragged ...

There is almost no possible way that someone could have walked away from Tuareg musician Bombino’s show at the Cedar Cultural Center (the first in the African Summer series) without being completely ...

Omar “Bombino” Moctar straddles two worlds. A Tuareg, the desert people of the Sahara, Bombino, as he is known, adheres to the centuries-old musical traditions of his people, weaving tales of struggle ...

For Omara Moctar, the electrifying Tuareg guitarist better known as "Bombino," there is no better place to play music than the majestic starkness of the desert. "There's the heat, there's the wind, ...

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 ...

Guitarist Bombino’s performance at a wedding in the desert city of Agadez, Niger, six years ago was, in some ways, a typical job. Then 27, he had been playing music since childhood and toured globally ...

The meeting of western rock stars and non-western musicians is so fraught with potential pitfalls, it's a wonder any decent records ever come of it at all. Cross-pollination is hampered by gaps in ...

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 ...