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Omara “Bombino” Moctar (born ) is a Nigerien guitarist and singer.
==Personal life==
Bombino was born in northern Niger in 1980, and is an ethnic Tuareg. He has sixteen siblings and half-siblings. As a child, he moved to Algeria, and then to Libya, as a result of drought and conflict. He moved back to Niger, and then to Burkina Faso in 2007.
He moved back to Niger in 2010.
==Career and style==
Bombino’s lyrics are in the , and address Tuareg geopolitical concerns. His musical style is strongly based on traditional Tuareg music, often mixed with reggae. When Bombino was around twelve, the Nigerien government banned the guitar for the Tuareg.
Upon returning to Niger, Bombino joined the Tuareg political party, and started guitar lessons. Haja Bebe invited him to join his band, where he acquired the name Bombino, from the Italian for “little child.” He does not use a guitar pick, describing it as “like taking an instrument that has five strings—your hand—and turning it into an instrument that has only one—the pick.”
He is part of a band, with Youba Dia and Corey Wilhelm. A fourth member Ilias Mohamed, died in 2020.
==Albums==
===Agadez===
Agadez was released in April 2011. It was recorded in 2009, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, in a filmmaker’s home studio. There is also an accompanying feature-length documentary, titled “Agadez: Music and Rebellion.”
===Nomad===
Bombino’s second album, Nomad, was released on April 2, 2013. It features collaboration with Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys, and was recorded in his studio.
===Azel===
Azel was released on April 1, 2016, and is a combination of Tuareg music and reggae, named “Touareggae.”Azel is also the name of a village, where the first primary school in northern Niger was founded.
===Deran===
Released on May 18, 2018, Deran is about the Tuareg people and their history. Deran is a Tamasheq word that approximately translates to “Best Wishes”.
It contains ten songs, and was recorded in Morocco. Bombino’s “mission for this album was always to get closer to Africa.” Lize Azel, it is in the “Touareggae” style.
===Live in Amsterdam===
Live in Amsterdam was released on November 27, 2020.
It was recorded at a performance in November 2019, and is dedicated to Illias Mohamed Alhassane, a bandmate who died of malaria weeks before its release.
==Awards==
In 2018, Bombino became the first Nigerien artist to be nominated for a Grammy, for the album Deran.
==References==
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