Power trio: Amadou, Mariam and Manu

Manu Chao has been an inspirational figure in world music for years, though many outside the anglophone world wouldn't think of him as playing "world music" - to them he is a rock star, playing Gypsy-folk-punk-whatever to huge crowds. Amadou and Mariam are the blind couple from Mali (Mariam Doumbia sings, Amadou Bagayoko plays guitar) who have mixed traditional Malian music with other forms and become sensations on the world music scene.Amadou and Mariam owe some of their success outside Mali to...

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