Khaira arby biography examples

Malian singer (–)

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