Van, an award-winning Moroccan producer, composer and DJ, has been working since 2000 to develop his own compositions while launching career-defining hits for major Moroccan singers and rappers. This ...

SIDI YAHYA ZAER, Morocco — Mbarka Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, singing about love, pain, and societal change to the melodies of her ...

Said Tichiti, founder of the Budapest, Hungary-based band Chalaban, is excited to lead the group on its first tour of North America, from Montreal to New York, Miami and Los Angeles — with a stop in ...

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HUDSON, N.Y. -- Club d'Elf is a band without members, playing music without category. It's by no means a solo project -- group interplay is key -- but bassist, musical ringleader and seer-in-chief ...

International Gnawan musical artist Hassan Hakmoun in Jerusalem's Tower of David. The Jerusalem Sacred Music Festival recently brought a new tradition to the holy city. For 24 consecutive hours, ...

Arabs, Jews, Berbers, Andalusians, Sufis, sub-Saharan Africans and miscellaneous remnants of colonialism all inform “native” Moroccan culture. Therefore, it’s not surprising that the country’s music ...

Composer and author Paul Bowles first went to Morocco in 1931. He fell in love with the country, returning often and eventually moving to Tangier, where he lived from 1947 until his death in 1999.

Women like her are the stewards of one of Morocco’s most cherished oral traditions: a form of folk singing known as aita, which means a “cry” or “lament” in Arabic. From smoky bars and cabarets in ...