7-564: Arby may refer to: Årby , a housing project in Eskilstuna, Sweden Khaira Arby (1959–2018), Malian singer Arby's , a North American fast food chain Arby, a character in the British TV series Utopia See also [ edit ] Araby (disambiguation) Darby (name) or D'Arby, a name and given name (and list of people with
14-633: A career under her own name, the first Malian woman to do so. In 2010, she gained recognition beyond Mali and her music received a favorable reception in North America. She toured the United States and performed at Pop Montreal in 2010 and the Montreal International Jazz Festival in 2011. In 2012, jihadists , with the help of Tuareg ex-mercenaries returning from Libya, invaded northern Mali and seized
21-481: 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 divorced her reluctant husband and remarried later. In 1992, Arby started
28-421: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Khaira Arby Khaira Arby , known as The Nightingale of Timbuktu (21 September 1959 – 19 August 2018), was a Malian singer. 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
35-588: The Sahel . Arby took exile, settling temporarily in Bamako . In Timbuktu, jihadists threatened her family and destroyed her instruments. Three years later, in 2015, she returned to Timbuktu. She said "Our religion has never banned music. The Prophet was greeted with songs when he arrived in Mecca. Cutting music is like keeping us from breathing. But we keep fighting, and it's going to go, inch'Allah." Arby wrote and sang in
42-544: The indigenous languages of the region: Songhai , Tamachek , Bambara and Arabic. She had a scratchy voice. Her words addressed sensitive issues. While Tuareg rebellions followed one another in 1990–1996, 2006, and 2007–2009, she advocated peace. She sang about the rights of women to autonomy, training, happiness and fulfillment, and also against female genital mutilation . Musically, she mixed traditional instrumentation, using for example n'goni , njarka and drums with electric instrumentation. Arby died on August 19, 2018, in
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