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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Mali
- Active from
- 1959-09-21
- Active to
- 2018-08-19
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Discography
- Timbuktu Tarab2010
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- 5,160
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Khaïra Arby (Timbuktu, Mali, September 21, 1959 - August 19, 2018) was a Malian singer. Khaïra Arby, "The Nightingale of the North", from the desert from Agouni, north of Timbuktu, Mali, and cousin to Ali Farka Touré sings in Songhai, Arabic, Tamashek and Bambara. She was born on September 21, 1959, in the Abaradjou neighborhood of Tomboctou, to a Berabiche father and a Tamachek mother. The only singer in her family, Khaira started to perform, in 1970, when she was only eleven years old. <a hr
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Mali
- Place of birth
- Timbuktu
- Place of death
- Bamako
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Khaira arby 2012.jpg
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- end of work period
- 2018-08-19
- date of birth
- 1959-09-21
- date of death
- 2018-08-19
- cause of death
- breast cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Khaira Arby
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