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Article: The sound of love
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- New Statesman
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- November 10, 2008
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The Tunisian vocalist Dhafer Youssef is one of the leaders of an exciting renaissance in Arabic music. A new generation of artists is engaging with both classical tradition and international audiences. By Hisham Matar
To the north stretches the Mediterranean, and to the south, where it looks as if the desert has blistered, a salt lake shimmers. The small fishing town of Tabulbah sits in between: a Tunisian port nearly 200km by winding road south of the capital Tunis. This is where, in 1967, the extraordinary vocalist and oud player Dhafer Youssef was born. Youssef will be performing at the London Jazz Festival on 14 November with Joanna MacGregor and the Britten Sinfonia. If you have not ...