CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Changing Sounds of Africa

COOLLY elegant in a brown pinstripe pantsuit and a pageboy bob, the singer Mariam Doumbia, 50, sat in a lounge of a chic new hotel on the Bowery. She appeared slightly bored. She was on a publicity tour with her husband, Amadou Bagayoko, to promote the new Amadou and Mariam album, Welcome to Mali (Nonesuch), and as usual he was doing most of the talking. She applied hand cream, brushed her hair, twiddled her thumbs. But when an interviewer offered her headphones, she perked up...

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