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    • Khaira Arby

    Malian singer (–)

    Khaira Arby

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    Born()21 September
    Timbuktu, Mali Federation
    Died19 August () (aged&#;58)
    Bamako, Mali
    OccupationTraditional Malian singer
    InstrumentVocals

    Musical artist

    Khaira Arby, known as The Nightingale of Timbuktu (21 September – 19 August ), was a Malian singer.[1]

    Early life

    Arby was the daughter of a Tuareg father and a Songhai mother. She began singing at a young age for weddings and traditional festivals, and at the age of eleven, began singing in a musical troupe from the city of Timbuktu.[2] During the presidency of Moussa Traoré, cultural policy safeguarded and developed traditional Malian culture.

    Arby left Timbuktu to join the artistic troupe of Gao, a town km to the east. Her father and her husband tried to make her give up her artistic career, but she resumed musical activity in the group Badema National after a break.[3] Arby divorced her reluctant husban