Grammy Award for Best World Music Album
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The Grammy Award for Best World Music Album was an honor presented for twelve years to recording artists for quality albums in the world music
World music
World music is a term with widely varying definitions, often encompassing music which is primarily identified as another genre. This is evidenced by world music definitions such as "all of the music in the world" or "somebody else's local music"...

 genre at the Grammy Award
Grammy Award
A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

s, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc., known variously as The Recording Academy or NARAS, is a U.S. organization of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other recording professionals dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its...

 of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position".

The award for Best World Music Album, reserved for international performers exhibiting "non-European, indigenous traditions", was first presented to Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart
Mickey Hart is an American percussionist and musicologist. He is best known as one of the two drummers of the rock band the Grateful Dead. He was a member of the Grateful Dead from September 1967 to February 1971, and from October 1974 to August 1995...

 in 1992 for the album Planet Drum
Planet Drum
Planet Drum is a world music album by Mickey Hart, a musician and musicologist who was a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead.Hart's concept for Planet Drum was to play drum music with percussionists from around the world, and incorporate their different musical styles and traditions into a...

. In 1996, Academy trustees attempted to solve the problem of "compressing 75% or more of the world's music into a single award category" by broadening the definition of "world music" to include non-Western classical music. Beginning in 2001, award recipients included the producers
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, engineers
Audio engineering
An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...

, and/or mixers
Audio mixing (recorded music)
In audio recording, audio mixing is the process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or more channels, most commonly two-channel stereo. In the process, the source signals' level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are manipulated and effects such as reverb may...

 associated with the nominated work in addition to the recording artists. Following the 45th Grammy Awards (2003), the award was split into two separate categories for Best Traditional World Music Album
Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best Traditional World Music Album was an honor presented to recording artists between 2004 and 2011 for quality traditional world music albums...

 and Best Contemporary World Music Album
Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary World Music Album was an honor presented to recording artists between 2004 and 2011 for quality contemporary world music albums...

.

Ry Cooder
Ry Cooder
Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder is an American guitarist, singer and composer. He is known for his slide guitar work, his interest in roots music from the United States, and, more recently, his collaborations with traditional musicians from many countries.His solo work has been eclectic, encompassing...

 was the only performing artist to win the award more than once (in 1994 with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also known as V. M. Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. Bhatt is the creator of the Mohan Veena...

 and in 1995 with Ali Farka Touré
Ali Farka Touré
Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues...

). Brazilian artists have been presented with the award more than any other nationality, though it has been presented to musicians or groups from the United States three times, from India twice, and from France, Ireland, Mali and Panama once. Cape Verde
Cape Verde
The Republic of Cape Verde is an island country, spanning an archipelago of 10 islands located in the central Atlantic Ocean, 570 kilometres off the coast of Western Africa...

an singer Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora
Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

 and the group Gipsy Kings
Gipsy Kings
The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...

 share the record for the most nominations, with five each (neither won an award).

Beginning in 2012, the categories for Best Traditional World Music Album and Best Contemporary World Music Album will be merged back to Best World Music Album.

Recipients

Year Performing artist(s) Nationality Work Nominees Ref.
1992
  • Dori Caymmi
    Dori Caymmi
    Dorival Tostes Caymmi is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, songwriter, arranger, and producer who is a two-time Grammy Award winner .-Biography:...

     – Brazilian Serenata
  • Gipsy Kings
    Gipsy Kings
    The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...

     – Este Mundo
  • Salif Keita
    Salif Keita
    Salif Keïta is an internationally recognized afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the Golden Voice of Africa, but because he has albinism and is a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita...

     – Amen
    Amen (Salif Keita album)
    Amen is the third studio album from Malian artist Salif Keita. It was released in 1991 by Mango and produced by Joe Zawinul.-Track listing:#"Yele n Na"#"Waraya"#"Tono"#"Kuma" - Speak#"Nyanafi" - Nostalgia#"Karifa"#"N B'I Fe" - I love you...

  • Milton Nascimento
    Milton Nascimento
    -Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

     – Txai
1993
  • Gipsy Kings
    Gipsy Kings
    The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...

     – Gipsy Kings Live
  • Ofra Haza
    Ofra Haza
    Ofra Haza was an Israeli singer of Yemeni origin, an actress and international recording artist....

     – Kirya
    Kirya
    Kirya was Ofra Haza's 1992 follow-up to the internationally successful Shaday and Desert Wind . Building on her successful blend of European pop and traditional Middle Eastern sounds, the album was a logical next step for Haza...

  • Youssou N'Dour
    Youssou N'Dour
    Youssou N'Dour 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 alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...

     – Eyes Open
  • Strunz & Farah
    Strunz & Farah
    Strunz & Farah is a guitar duo with an eclectic sound that have been described as a cross between world fusion and flamenco.-History:Jorge Strunz, born in Costa Rica, and Ardeshir Farah, hailing from Iran, met in the United States in 1979. Jorge Strunz was one of the founders of the Latin jazz...

     – Americas
  • 1994 and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
    Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
    Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also known as V. M. Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. Bhatt is the creator of the Mohan Veena...


  • Johnny Clegg and Savuka
    Savuka
    Savuka was a band formed in 1986 by English-born South African Johnny Clegg after the disbanding of his first band, Juluka. Both of his bands were inter-racial in the racially segregated Apartheid South Africa...

     – Heat, Dust and Dreams
    Heat, Dust and Dreams
    Heat, Dust And Dreams is a studio album by South African artist Johnny Clegg and his band Savuka, released in 1993, produced by Hilton Rosenthal, co-produced by Bobby Summerfield. The album received a 1993 Grammy Award nomination for Best World Music Album.....

  • Deep Forest
    Deep Forest
    Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats...

     – Deep Forest
    Deep Forest (Deep Forest album)
    Deep Forest is the first and eponymous album by the musical group Deep Forest: French duo Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. The album mixes New Age electronics with UNESCO field recordings of music from Zaire, the Solomon Islands, Burundi, Tibesti and the Sahel.A percentage of the profits from...

  • Henry Kaiser
    Henry Kaiser (musician)
    Henry Kaiser is an American guitarist and composer.Recording and performing prolifically in many styles of music, Kaiser is a fixture on the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. He is considered a member of the "first generation" of American free improvisers.-Biography:His grandfather was the...

     and David Lindley
    David Lindley (musician)
    David Perry Lindley is an American musician who is notable for his work with Jackson Browne, Warren Zevon, and other rock musicians. He has worked extensively in other genres as well, performing with artists as varied as Curtis Mayfield and Dolly Parton...

     – A World Out of Time, Vol. 2
  • Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares – From Bulgaria with Love
  • 1995 and Ali Farka Touré
    Ali Farka Touré
    Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues...


  • Gipsy Kings
    Gipsy Kings
    The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...

     – Love and Liberté
    Love and Liberté
    -Track listing:# "No Viviré" – 4:10# "Campana" – 4:12# "Escucha Me" – 4:05# "Ritmo de le Noche" – 3:30# "Madre Mia" – 3:53# "Pedir a Tu Corazon" – 4:39# "Michaël" – 4:05# "Queda Te Aqui" – 4:44# "Guitarra Negra" – 3:42# "Navidad" – 3:29# "Montaña" – 5:24...

  • Milton Nascimento
    Milton Nascimento
    -Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

     – Angelus
  • Youssou N'Dour
    Youssou N'Dour
    Youssou N'Dour 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 alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...

     – The Guide (Wommat)
  • Zap Mama
    Zap Mama
    Zap Mama is a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne. Daulne says her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with her music...

     – Sabsylma
  • 1996 Deep Forest
    Deep Forest
    Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians, Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electronic sounds and dance beats or chillout beats...

  • Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

     – Cesária
    Cesária
    Cesária is an album by Cesária Évora.-Track listing:#"Petit Pays"#"Xandinha"#"Tudo Tem Se Limite"#"Consedjo"#"D'Nhirim Reforma"#"Rotcha 'Scribida"#"Oriundina"#"Tudo Dia E Dia"#"Nha Cancera Ka Tem Medida"#"Areia De Salamansa"#"Flor Na Paul"...

  • Baaba Maal
    Baaba Maal
    Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.-Biography:Born 12 November 1953...

     – Firin' in Fouta
    Firin' in Fouta
    Firin' in Fouta is an album by Senegalese singer Baaba Maal. It was released in 1994, and is his fourth release on Mango Records, including one with Mansour Seck...

  • Shankar
    L. Shankar
    Lakshminarayanan Shankar, also known as L. Shankar and Shenkar, is an Indian-born American violinist, singer and composer.-Early life:...

     with Zakir Hussain
    Zakir Hussain (musician)
    Zakir Hussain , , is an Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and composer.-Early life:Hussain was born in Mumbai, India to the legendary tabla player Alla Rakha. He attended St...

     and Vikku Vinayakram
    Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram
    Thetakudi Harihara Vinayakram , also known as Vikku Vinayakram is a Grammy Award–winning Indian percussionist. Vinayakram plays Carnatic music with the ghatam, an earthen pot. Vinayakram is credit for the progress and development as well as popularizing of the ghatam.-Early life:Vikku Vinayakram...

     – Raga Aberi
  • The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco featuring Randy Weston
    Randy Weston
    Randy Weston , is an American jazz pianist and composer, of Jamaican parentage.-Biography:Weston studied classical piano as a child. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he ran a restaurant that was frequented by many of the leading bebop musicians...

     – The Splendid Master Gnawa Musicians of Morocco
  • 1997
  • Béla Fleck
    Béla Fleck
    Béla Anton Leoš Fleck 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 Revival and Béla Fleck and the Flecktones.-Early life and career details:Fleck was born in...

    , V.M. Bhatt
    Vishwa Mohan Bhatt
    Vishwa Mohan Bhatt also known as V. M. Bhatt is an Indian slide guitar player. Bhatt is the creator of the Mohan Veena...

     and Jiebing Chen
    Jiebing Chen
    Jiebing Chen is a Chinese musician based in the United States specializing in the erhu .Born in Shanghai, China, Chen went to the United States in 1989 to study at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she received an M.A...

     – Tabula Rasa
  • Gipsy Kings
    Gipsy Kings
    The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...

     – Tierra Gitana
    Tierra Gitana
    -Track listing:# "A Ti a Ti" – 3:36# "Siempre Acaba Tu Vida" – 4:57# "Estrellas" – 3:32# "Mi Corazon" – 4:29# "Mujer" – 4:17# "Tierra Gitana" – 3:28# "Pajarito" – 3:06# "Los Peces en el Rio" – 3:17# "Igual Se Entonces" – 3:59# "Cataluña" – 3:41...

  • Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan , often referred to as Khansahib or by the title Ustad , was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod...

     – Legacy
  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and Michael Brook
    Michael Brook
    Michael Brook is a Canadian guitarist, inventor, producer, and film music composer. He plays in many genres, including rock, electronica, world music, minimalism and film scores....

     – Night Song
    Night Song
    Night Song is an album by qawwal Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and guitarist and producer Michael Brook. It was the last album on Real World Records that Khan lived to see finished...

  • Joe Zawinul
    Joe Zawinul
    Josef Erich Zawinul was an Austrian-American jazz keyboardist and composer.First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with trumpeter Miles Davis, and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, an innovative musical genre that combined jazz with...

     – My People
  • 1998
  • Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

     – Cabo Verde
  • Gipsy Kings
    Gipsy Kings
    The Gipsy Kings are a group of musicians from Arles and Montpellier, who perform in Spanish with an Andalucían accent. Although group members were born in France, their parents were mostly gitanos, Spanish Romani people who fled Catalonia during the 1930s Spanish Civil War. Chico Bouchikhi is of...

     – Compas
    Compas (album)
    -Track listing:# "Ami Wa Wa " – 4:02# "Que Si, Que No " – 3:19# "Una Rumba Por Aqui" – 4:24# "Recuerdo Apasionado [Instrumental]" – 4:04# "Mira la Itana Mora" – 6:55# "La Fiesta Comenza" – 3:03# "Canto a Brazil" – 4:15...

  • Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan
    Ali Akbar Khan , often referred to as Khansahib or by the title Ustad , was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod...

     – Passing on the Tradition
  • Babatunde Olatunji
    Babatunde Olatunji
    Babatunde Olatunji was a Nigerian drummer, educator, social activist and recording artist.- Biography :Olatunji was born in the village of Ajido, a small town near Badagry, Lagos State, in southwestern Nigeria. A member of the Yoruba people, Olatunji was introduced to traditional African music at...

     – Love Drum Talk
  • 1999
  • King Sunny Adé
    King Sunny Adé
    King Sunny Adé is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian Jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music. He has been classed as one of the most influential musicians of all time.-Background:...

     – Odu
    Odu (album)
    Odu is a studio album by Nigerian Jùjú musician King Sunny Adé. It was released in 1998 on Mesa/Atlantic. Recorded at Dockside Studios, Maurice, Louisiana, it was produced by Andrew Frankel and features traditional Yoruba music....

  • Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

     – Miss Perfumado
    Miss Perfumado
    -Track listing:#"Sodade"#"Bia"#"Cumpade Ciznone"#"Direito Di Nasce"#"Luz Dum Estrela"#"Angola"#"Miss Perfumado"#"Vida Tem Um So Vida"#"Morabeza"#"Recordaï"#"Lua Nha Testemunha"#"Barbincor"#"Tortura"...

  • Angélique Kidjo
    Angélique Kidjo
    Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, commonly known as Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva". The BBC has...

     – Oremi
  • Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson
    Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...

     – Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
    Contact from the Underworld of Redboy
    Contact from the Underworld of Redboy is an album by Robbie Robertson that was released in 1998 by Capitol Records. The album is composed of music inspired by Native American music as well as modern rock, trip-hop, and electronica, often integrated together, and features many guest artists.-Track...

  • 2000
  • Afro Celt Sound System
    Afro Celt Sound System
    The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern electronic dance rhythms with traditional Irish and West African music...

     – Volume 2: Release
    Volume 2: Release
    Volume 2: Release is Afro Celt Sound System's second album, Released on January 25, 1999 by Real World Records.-Track listing:# "Release" – 7:36# "Lovers of Light" – 3:58# "Éireann" – 5:09# "Urban Aire" – 2:08# "Big Cat" – 7:43...

  • Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

     – Café Atlantico
    Café Atlantico
    Café Atlantico is an album by Cesária Évora.- Track listing :# "Flôr di nha esperança"# "Vaquinha Mansa"# "Amor di mundo"# "Paraiso di atlantico"# "Sorte"# "Carnaval de São Vicente"# "Desilusão dum amdjer"# "Nho antone escaderode"...

  • Salif Keita
    Salif Keita
    Salif Keïta is an internationally recognized afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the Golden Voice of Africa, but because he has albinism and is a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita...

     – Papa
  • Ali Farka Touré
    Ali Farka Touré
    Ali Ibrahim “Farka” Touré was a Malian singer and guitarist, and one of the African continent’s most internationally renowned musicians. His music is widely regarded as representing a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and its North American cousin, the blues...

     – Niafunke
  • 2001
  • Miriam Makeba
    Miriam Makeba
    Miriam Makeba , nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award winning South African singer and civil rights activist....

     – Homeland
    Homeland (Miriam Makeba album)
    Homeland is a 2000 album by South African singer Miriam Makeba. It was released in 2000 on CD by world music label Putumayo. It includes a duet starring Makeba and Zenzi Lee in a renovated version of Makeba's trademark hit song "Pata Pata" , entitled "Pata Pata 2000"...

  • Youssou N'Dour
    Youssou N'Dour
    Youssou N'Dour 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 alive." He helped develop a style of popular music in Senegal, known in the Serer language as mbalax, a type of music...

     – Joko (The Link)
  • The Chieftains
    The Chieftains
    The Chieftains are a Grammy-winning Irish musical group founded in 1962, best known for being one of the first bands to make Irish traditional music popular around the world.-Name:...

     – Water from the Well
  • Paul Winter
    Paul Winter
    Paul Winter is an American saxophonist , and is a six-time Grammy Award nominee.- Biography :Paul Winter attended Altoona Area High School and graduated in 1957...

     and the Earth Band – Journey with the Sun
  • 2002
  • Afro Celt Sound System
    Afro Celt Sound System
    The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern electronic dance rhythms with traditional Irish and West African music...

     – Volume 3: Further in Time
    Volume 3: Further in Time
    Volume 3: Further in Time is the third studio album from Afro Celt Sound System, released June 19, 2001 through Real World Records.-Track listing:# "North" - 6:48# "North 2" - 2:59# "When You're Falling" - 5:14...

  • Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora
    Cesária Évora is a Cape Verdean popular singer. Nicknamed the "barefoot diva" for performing without shoes, Évora is perhaps the best internationally known practitioner of "morna."-Early life:...

     – São Vicente di Longe
    São Vicente di Longe
    -Track listing:#"Sao Vicente Di Longe"#"Homem Na Meio Di'Homem"#"Tiempo Y Silencio "#"Sabor De Pecado"#"Dor Si Amor"#"Nutridinha"#"Regresso "#"Esperanca Irisada"#"Ponta De Fi"...

  • Gilberto Gil
    Gilberto Gil
    Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira , better known as Gilberto Gil or , is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political commitment...

     and Milton Nascimento
    Milton Nascimento
    -Biography:Nascimento's mother was the maid Maria Nascimento. As a baby, Milton Nascimento was adopted by his mother's former employers: the couple Josino Brito Campos, a banker employee, mathematics teacher and electronic technician; and Lília Silva Campos, a music teacher and choir singer...

     – Gil and Milton
  • John McLaughlin
    John McLaughlin (musician)
    John McLaughlin , also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer...

     and various artists
    Compilation album
    A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

     – Saturday Night in Bombay: Remember Shakti
  • 2003
  • Salif Keita
    Salif Keita
    Salif Keïta is an internationally recognized afro-pop singer-songwriter from Mali. He is unique not only because of his reputation as the Golden Voice of Africa, but because he has albinism and is a direct descendant of the founder of the Mali Empire, Sundiata Keita...

     – Moffou
    Moffou
    Moffou is a studio album by the Malian artist Salif Keita. It was recorded during July and August of 2001 at Les Studios De La Seine in Paris, France. Moffou was released in 2002 by Universal Jazz France. The song Yamore features the Cape Verdean singer Cesária Évora.-Track listing:# Yamore#...

  • Angélique Kidjo
    Angélique Kidjo
    Angélique Kpasseloko Hinto Hounsinou Kandjo Manta Zogbin Kidjo, commonly known as Angélique Kidjo is a Grammy Award–winning Beninoise singer-songwriter and activist, noted for her diverse musical influences and creative music videos. Time Magazine has called her "Africa's premier diva". The BBC has...

     – Black Ivory Soul
  • Femi Kuti
    Femi Kuti
    Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti....

     – Fight to Win
    Fight to Win
    Fight to Win is an album by Nigerian musician Femi Kuti released in mid-October 2001.-Track listing:# "Do Your Best "# "Walk on the Right Side"# "Traitors of Africa"# "Tension Grip Nigeria"# "'97"# "Fight to Win Fight to Win is an album by Nigerian musician Femi Kuti released in mid-October...

  • Anoushka Shankar
    Anoushka Shankar
    Anoushka Shankar is a British Indian sitar player and composer who lives between the United States, the United Kingdom, and India. She is the daughter of Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sukanya Shankar...

     – Live at Carnegie Hall
    Live at Carnegie Hall (Anoushka Shankar album)
    Live at Carnegie Hall is a live album by Anoushka Shankar released in 2001, and recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York and at the Salisbury Festival...


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