Malouma Mint Moktar Ould Meidah, known simply as Malouma to her growing army of fans, was horn into a griot family. A griot is a practitioner of the West African tradition of praise singing. To be a griot is to be a unique mix of entertainer, social commentator and oral historian.
Her grandfather Mohamed Yahya Ould Boubane was renowned as a writer and as a musician who played the tidinet, a small traditional guitar used by the agency of many of Mauritania's griots. Her father, Moktar Ould Meidah is also a prominent musician and bard and he ...
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