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Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album was first awarded in 2004 alongside the award for Best Traditional World Music Album. Previously a single award was presented in this field for Best World Music Album.
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Youssou N'Dour
Youssou N'Dour (French pronunciation: [jusu n̩ˈduːʀ]; born 1 October 1959 in Dakar) is a Senegalese singer, percussionist and occasional actor. In 2004, Rolling Stone described him as, in Senegal and much of Africa, "perhaps the most famous singer...
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Lila Downs
Lila Downs (born 1968 in Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca) is a Mexican singer. She performs her own compositions as well as tapping into native Mesoamerican music of the Mixtec, Zapotec, Maya and Nahuatl cultures.
Downs is the daughter of Mixtec cabaret singer...
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Gilberto Gil
Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born June 26, 1942), better known as Gilberto Gil (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒiwˈbɛxtu ʒiw]), is a Grammy Award-winning Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political...
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Soweto Gospel Choir
Soweto Gospel Choir is a South African gospel group.
The group was formed in Soweto, South Africa by David Mulovhedzi and Beverly Bryer, two choir directors. The 30+ member ensemble blends elements of African gospel, Negro spirituals, reggae, and...
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Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck (born July 10, 1958 in New York City, New York) is an American banjo player. Widely acknowledged as one of the world's most innovative and technically proficient banjo players, he is best known for his work with the bands New Grass...
Amadou & Mariam
Amadou & Mariam are a musical duo from Mali, composed of the couple Amadou Bagayoko (guitar and vocals) (born in Bamako 24 October 1954) and Mariam Doumbia (vocals) (born in Mali's capital Bamako 15 April 1958). The pair, known as "the blind couple...
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Omar Sosa
Omar Sosa (born April 10, 1965, in Camagüey, Cuba) is a composer, bandleader, and jazz pianist.
Sosa began studying marimba at age eight, then switched to piano at the Escuela Nacional de Musica in Havana, where he studied jazz. Sosa moved to Quito,...
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Femi Kuti
Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti (born 16 June 1962) popularly known as Femi Kuti, is an award-winning Nigerian musician and the oldest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.
Femi was born in London to Fela and Remi Kuti and grew up in the...
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Oumou Sangare
Oumou Sangare (born February 25, 1968, in Bamako, Mali) is a Malian Wassoulou musician, sometimes referred to as "The Songbird of Wassoulou." Wassoulou is a historic region south of the Niger River, and the music there is descended from traditional...
