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Mahamadou Souleymane (born c. 16 August 1984 or 1986), known professionally as Mdou Moctar (also M.dou Mouktar), is a Tuareg songwriter and musician based in Agadez, Niger, who performs modern rock music inspired by Tuareg guitar music.
Mdou Moctar is a Nigerien singer-songwriter and guitarist who blends rock, blues and Tuareg music. Find out his latest news, music videos, upcoming concerts and new album "AFRIQUE VICTIME" on his official website.
The official channel of Mdou Moctar.
That’s no longer the case. Over 100s of shows, they’ve proven themselves as one of the world’s most vital rock bands – a group rooted in Tuareg tradition, but undeniably its own singular organism. An Mdou Moctar concert is now recognized to be a place for dancing, if not full-force moshing.
Hace 1 día · Mdou Moctar is one of the leading lights in the tishoumaren genre, known better in the west as 'desert blues', along with his Saharan peers like Tinariwen, Songhoy Blues, and Bombino.
9 de may. de 2024 · Están empezando a olvidar su propio idioma, la base de su historia e identidad. Sentimos que dentro de cien años nadie hablará tamasheq y eso da mucho miedo», cuenta Moctar. Mdou Moctar, en su versión actual, es una banda de blues-desierto tuareg, también conocido como « assou».
Prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar boldly reforges contemporary Saharan music and “rock music“ by melding Eddie Van Halen pyrotechnics, full-blast noise and guitar shredding, field recordings, drums rhythms, poetic meditations on love, religion, women's rights, inequality and Western Africa’s exploitation at the hands ...
