Khaira arby biography for kids

Khaira Arby, known as The Nightingale of Timbuktu (21 September 1959 – 19 August 2018), was a Malian singer.

Early life

Arby was the daughter of a Tuareg father and a Songhai mother.

She began singing at a young age for weddings and traditional festivals, and at the age of eleven, began singing in a musical troupe from the city of Timbuktu. During the presidency of Moussa Traoré, cultural policy safeguarded and developed traditional Malian culture.

Arby left Timbuktu to join the artistic troupe of Gao, a town 400 km to the east.

Her father and her husband tried to make her give up her artistic career, but she resumed musical activity in the group Badema National after a break. Arby