{"id":13089,"date":"2017-09-22T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe\/"},"modified":"2017-09-22T08:07:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T16:07:27","slug":"amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Amadou &amp; Mariam On World Cafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2017\/09\/22\/552857389\/amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\">Talia Schlanger<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2017\/09\/22\/552857389\/amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/09\/22\/amadou-mariam-credit-hassan-hajjaj_wide-135b24fd2ed629f328a78dc99780c611c34c49e5-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/09\/22\/amadou-mariam-credit-hassan-hajjaj_wide-135b24fd2ed629f328a78dc99780c611c34c49e5-s1200.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/09\/22\/amadou-mariam-credit-hassan-hajjaj_wide-135b24fd2ed629f328a78dc99780c611c34c49e5-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n                Amadou &amp; Mariam<\/p>\n<p>                <b><\/p>\n<p>                    Hassan Hajjaj\/Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><b><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        Hassan Hajjaj\/Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Bofou Safou&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Filaou Bessame&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET\" --><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES552860140\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP LISTTEXT\" --><\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"CONTAINER SMALL\" ID=\"CON552860528\" PREVIEWTITLE=\"SET LIST\" --><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always kind of a miracle when two people find each other and fall in love. And that&#8217;s what happened to my guests, the duo known as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15190805\/amadou-mariam\">Amadou &amp; Mariam<\/a>. But their story is even more miraculous. They&#8217;re both from Mali; they both lost their eyesight as kids \u2014 Mariam was 5, and Amadou was 16. They met each other at the Bamako Institute for the Young Blind in the &#8217;70s, fell in love with each other&#8217;s musicianship and went on to get married and become global Afropop sensations.<\/p>\n<p>They also have a lot of fans in the rock universe \u2014 they&#8217;ve opened for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15816983\/u2\">U2<\/a>; they&#8217;ve been championed by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15052810\/coldplay\">Coldplay<\/a> and Damon Albarn of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/93878453\/blur\">Blur<\/a>. And Amadou has a surprising guitar hero: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15399776\/david-gilmour\">David Gilmour<\/a> of Pink Floyd. Amadou will play guest DJ for a hot second, and pick his favorite David Gilmour guitar solo.<\/p>\n<p>Today \u2014 with the help of a French translator \u2014 Amadou and Mariam will describe what each of them remembers about being able to see, and tell their love story. And, of course, we&#8217;ll hear the duo perform live music from its latest album, <em>La Confusion,<\/em> starting with the song &#8220;Bofou Safou.&#8221; Hear it all in the player above.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcafe.tumblr.com\/post\/165614658066\/world-cafe-playlist-for-09222017-stream-the\">World Cafe: 9\/22\/17<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES552857535\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP EXTERNALLINK\" --><\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"CONTAINER LARGE\" ID=\"CON552857536\" PREVIEWTITLE=\"WEB RESOURCES\" --><\/div>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2017\/09\/22\/552857389\/amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amadou &amp; Mariam On World Cafe\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2017\/09\/22\/552857389\/amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/world-cafe\/2017\/09\/22\/552857389\/amadou-mariam-on-world-cafe?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=world\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/09\/22\/amadou-mariam-credit-hassan-hajjaj_wide-135b24fd2ed629f328a78dc99780c611c34c49e5-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt><\/p>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/09\/22\/amadou-mariam-credit-hassan-hajjaj_wide-135b24fd2ed629f328a78dc99780c611c34c49e5-s1200.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2017\/09\/22\/amadou-mariam-credit-hassan-hajjaj_wide-135b24fd2ed629f328a78dc99780c611c34c49e5-s1200.jpg\">Enlarge this image<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\n                Amadou &amp; Mariam<\/p>\n<p>                <b><\/p>\n<p>                    Hassan Hajjaj\/Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>                <\/b><b><b>hide caption<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b><b>toggle caption<\/b><\/b><\/div>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<p>        Hassan Hajjaj\/Courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n<p>    <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Bofou Safou&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Filaou Bessame&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"BUCKET\" --><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES552860140\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP LISTTEXT\" --><\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"CONTAINER SMALL\" ID=\"CON552860528\" PREVIEWTITLE=\"SET LIST\" --><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always kind of a miracle when two people find each other and fall in love. And that&#8217;s what happened to my guests, the duo known as <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15190805\/amadou-mariam\">Amadou &amp; Mariam<\/a>. But their story is even more miraculous. They&#8217;re both from Mali; they both lost their eyesight as kids \u2014 Mariam was 5, and Amadou was 16. They met each other at the Bamako Institute for the Young Blind in the &#8217;70s, fell in love with each other&#8217;s musicianship and went on to get married and become global Afropop sensations.<\/p>\n<p>They also have a lot of fans in the rock universe \u2014 they&#8217;ve opened for <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15816983\/u2\">U2<\/a>; they&#8217;ve been championed by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15052810\/coldplay\">Coldplay<\/a> and Damon Albarn of <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/93878453\/blur\">Blur<\/a>. And Amadou has a surprising guitar hero: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/artists\/15399776\/david-gilmour\">David Gilmour<\/a> of Pink Floyd. Amadou will play guest DJ for a hot second, and pick his favorite David Gilmour guitar solo.<\/p>\n<p>Today \u2014 with the help of a French translator \u2014 Amadou and Mariam will describe what each of them remembers about being able to see, and tell their love story. And, of course, we&#8217;ll hear the duo perform live music from its latest album, <em>La Confusion,<\/em> starting with the song &#8220;Bofou Safou.&#8221; Hear it all in the player above.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/worldcafe.tumblr.com\/post\/165614658066\/world-cafe-playlist-for-09222017-stream-the\">World Cafe: 9\/22\/17<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- END ID=\"RES552857535\" CLASS=\"BUCKETWRAP EXTERNALLINK\" --><\/div>\n<p><!-- END CLASS=\"CONTAINER LARGE\" ID=\"CON552857536\" PREVIEWTITLE=\"WEB RESOURCES\" --><\/div>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/acceptable.html\">(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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}