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Khaira Arby, known as The Nightingale of Timbuktu (21 September – 19 August ), was a Malian singer....
RIP to Malian singer Khaira Arby, who died on Sunday.
Khaïra Arby (Timbuktu, Mali, September 21, 1959 - August 19, 2018) was a Malian singer.
Khaïra Arby, "The Nightingale of the North", from the desert from Agouni, north of Timbuktu, Mali, and cousin to Ali Farka Touré sings in Songhai, Arabic, Tamashek and Bambara.
She was born on September 21, 1959, in the Abaradjou neighborhood of Tomboctou, to a Berabiche father and a Tamachek mother.
The only singer in her family, Khaira started to perform, in 1970, when she was only eleven years old. She made her public debut with a cultural group from Abaradjou, and made such an impression that she was soon recruited by the ‘troupe du cercle de Tomboctou’.
And later that same year, she was promoted to soloist with ‘troupe regionale de Gao’, the ensemble with which she appeared at the 1970 biennale; a biannual music festival/competition featuring the best traditional and modern ensembles from throughout Mali.
In 1972, Khaira was recruited by the ‘Orchestre de Tomboctou’, a modern da
