Songhoy Blues, an African desert blues group with Touré at the helm, was eventually formed. The group gained fame after a run of shows in Bamako, Mali. Around that time the group met Paul Chandler, a ...

The act performed at several festivals before breaking up and Mali started working on her own music. She released her second EP, Rush, in 2017 and then her debut full-length album in 2021 ...

"He just wanted play music and then he made us food - a ... influenced by ongoing ethnic tensions and violence in Mali. On his recent album Les Racines (The Roots), Vieux returned to the desert ...

The album, consisting of eight tracks, is an ode to the Tsonga culture. Fans got a taste of a new track titled Vafana Va Mali. Musa Keys said, "Song for the culture ku bomba machangane," he said.