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Mauritania singer Noura Mint Seymali backstage in January 2013

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Noura Mint Seymali, with her husband Jeiche Ould Chighaly behind her, playing at the Issue Project Room in Brooklyn on her first US tour.

Blending in a little funk from a Mauritanian musical ambassador

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Mauritanian singer Noura Mint Seymali comes from a prominent family of griots—keepers of traditional musical and story. She’s spicing up that tradition, and trying to introduce it to the world.

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