{"id":6624,"date":"2016-05-12T00:02:02","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T00:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/05\/12\/rokia-traore-on-world-cafe\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T00:02:02","slug":"rokia-traore-on-world-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/rokia-traore-on-world-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Rokia Traore On World Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/05\/11\/477665333\/rokia-traore-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/05\/11\/rokia-traore-credit-danny-willems_wide-1b7c2c68c234d93472bf582a22f549d0c8855637-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Rokia Traor\u00e9.\" alt=\"Rokia Traor\u00e9.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Rokia Traor\u00e9. <strong>Danny Willems\/Courtesy of the artst<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Danny Willems\/Courtesy of the artst<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Obik\u00e9&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Il\u00e9&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/14995698\/rokia-traore\">Rokia Traor\u00e9<\/a> wasn&#8217;t supposed to be a musician at all; it was discouraged among the noble caste of Mali&#8217;s Bambara ethnic group, into which she was born. But, like musicians everywhere, she was also born with the drive to create. Against tradition, she started playing in college and was noticed by the revered Malian guitarist <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15401972\/ali-farka-toure\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Farka Tour\u00e9<\/a>, who helped her immensely in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Traor\u00e9 has a new album called <em>N\u00e9 So<\/em>, which means &#8220;home.&#8221; In this session, she explains that, as a diplomat&#8217;s daughter, she has had many homes and has often been lonely, which she thinks fuels her songwriting. Hear her perform live in the <em>World Cafe<\/em> studio in the audio above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcafe.tumblr.com\/post\/144199323596\/world-cafe-playlist-51116-david-bowie-it\">World Cafe: 5\/11\/16<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/05\/11\/477665333\/rokia-traore-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Rokia Traore On World Cafe\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/05\/11\/477665333\/rokia-traore-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2016\/05\/11\/477665333\/rokia-traore-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/05\/11\/rokia-traore-credit-danny-willems_wide-1b7c2c68c234d93472bf582a22f549d0c8855637-s1100-c15.jpg\" title=\"Rokia Traor\u00e9.\" alt=\"Rokia Traor\u00e9.\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Rokia Traor\u00e9. <strong>Danny Willems\/Courtesy of the artst<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span>Danny Willems\/Courtesy of the artst<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Obik\u00e9&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Il\u00e9&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Strange Fruit&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/14995698\/rokia-traore\">Rokia Traor\u00e9<\/a> wasn&#8217;t supposed to be a musician at all; it was discouraged among the noble caste of Mali&#8217;s Bambara ethnic group, into which she was born. But, like musicians everywhere, she was also born with the drive to create. Against tradition, she started playing in college and was noticed by the revered Malian guitarist <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15401972\/ali-farka-toure\" target=\"_blank\">Ali Farka Tour\u00e9<\/a>, who helped her immensely in the early 2000s.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Traor\u00e9 has a new album called <em>N\u00e9 So<\/em>, which means &#8220;home.&#8221; In this session, she explains that, as a diplomat&#8217;s daughter, she has had many homes and has often been lonely, which she thinks fuels her songwriting. Hear her perform live in the <em>World Cafe<\/em> studio in the audio above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcafe.tumblr.com\/post\/144199323596\/world-cafe-playlist-51116-david-bowie-it\">World Cafe: 5\/11\/16<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}