World Music Matters
"Homeland has to be inside" says Franco-Moroccan singer Hindi Zahra
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After a successful debut album Hand Made in 2010, Hindi Zahra returns with Homeland. The voice which goes effortlessly from 40’s-inspired jazz to soul, blues and folk, is as suave as ever. But the sources of inspiration stretch far beyond her native Morocco. Rhythms from Cape Verde, Brazil, Iran, India and Cuba have made a stopover in the Sahara, encountering Touareg blues and Chaabi guitar. Written in a riad in Marrakech, in the company of her trusty cats, the Berber/Touareg singer found a kind of interior homeland: open to the world yet deeply private. A bit like Hindi herself.Hindi Zahra plays La Cigale on 20 May. She's on Facebook.
