Noura Mint Seymali is a nationally beloved star & one of Mauritania's foremost musical emissaries, having begun her career at 13 as a supporting vocalist with her legendary stepmother, Dimi Mint Abba. Reared in a culture of collision where sounds from across the Sahara, the Magreb, & West Africa coalesce in the dynamic language of the Moorish griot, her success stems from her ability to combine a rare classical mastery & a griot's cultural authority with musical idioms that speak to the emergent realities of youth culture in West Africa & beyond.