Natacha Atlas’s new offering, Myriad Road, sees her combining creative forces once again. This time, she has worked with one of France’s most eminent jazz musicians, Ibrahim Maalouf – the ...

If there's one word that Natacha Atlas' fans use most often to describe the singer, it's "goddess" - as in "Natacha is such a frigging goddess!" (a YouTube comment) and "She's the goddess of funky ...

Natacha Atlas considers herself a globe-trotter. The singer-songwriter, noted for her multicultural mix of Arabic music with Western techno-pop, classical and jazz styles, was born 46 years ago in ...

Natacha Atlas, born in Brussels of English and Egyptian heritage, Natacha Atlas has been brining cultural divides together for over two decades. She was lead vocalist with the UK’s great band ...

Belgian singer Natacha Atlas' music sits on the brink between two cultures: Western and Eastern. She uses this meeting of sounds to create something unique that takes the best from both worlds. Atlas ...

The music of Natacha Atlas is as complex as her personal history. Her father was Egyptian, her mother British. She lived in a Moroccan neighborhood in Brussels as a child, but then moved to the U.K.

In Elia Suleiman’s 2002 film, “Divine Intervention,” the Palestinian protagonist and an Israeli Jew wait in their cars, side by side, at a very long traffic light. The Palestinian slips a cassette ...

I’m a reluctant downloader. I like having a CD’s cover art, liner notes, the whole package. But you can’t always get it. That old Judy Collins album? That not-so-old Boy Eats Drum Machine debut?

The Belgian-born Natacha Atlas has been impressing the rest of the world since the mid-Eighties. Her forlorn, aching vocals on solo LPs like Halim and Gedida have graced the recordings of artists as ...

October 5, 2010 • The sounds and ideas on Mounqaliba rub against one another and ultimately produce sparks, even light. Atlas hones the contradictions of her tangled heritage into an enchanting ...

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Belgium produces some of the most energetic, fun, crazy “world” music (in the sense of traveling the world, not tie-dying it) in the, well, world. But for every day Roger 23 from Front 242 spends ...