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Oumou Sangare
Known as the 'Songbird of Wassoulou', Malian singer Oumou Sangaré has been a
fearless advocate for social change, a successful business woman and one of
Africa's great modern divas, while staying true to the roots and traditions of
her ancestors' music. Her parents came from small villages in West Africa and
settled in capital city Bamako in the 1960s, but her father abandoned her and
her mother and fled to the Ivory Coast with his second wife. Her mother earned
money singing at local gatherings and ceremonies, but young Oumou quickly became
the bigger attraction and at just five...
