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World Music's Superstars
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June is Black Music Month. But the stars of 'black music' are not just Americans. They hail from all across the African Diaspora. What they all have in common is an ability to make music that transcends geography and language to touch your soul.

Salif Keita (Mali)

'I'm a black man, my skin is white and I like it, it's my difference/ I'm a white man, my blood is black, I love that, it's the difference that's beautiful.' So croons Afro-pop legend Keita on the title track from his latest recording, La Difference. Keita, the 'golden voice' of Mali, explores the very personal experience of living with Albinism in Malian culture. Superstitions abound about albinos, and they are routinely shunned and in extreme circumstances--they are killed.

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