Nawal is a musician from

Comoros The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni, ...

whose music draws on traditional Comorian influences and incorporates sounds from African and Arabic culture. Born into a musical family, she grew up with such sounds as dhikr (Sufi chanting) in mosques, twarab music, and popular music from the radio airwaves. She mixes Comorian rhythms with bantu polyphony, Indo-Arabian-Persian sounds and Sufi chanting into an acoustic roots-based fusion. She plays many instruments, including the guitar and

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. She sings in Comorian,

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and

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Discography

* 2001: ''Kweli'' * 2007: ''Aman''

References

External links

Official site
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