Luc Moindranze Karioudja celebrates the rhythms and storytelling of maloya music on his debut solo album “Mon Balo.” It’s a style now celebrated on the Reunion Island, but back in the 1960s and ’70s, the French government banned this music. Host Marco Werman tell us more.
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