Dimi Mint Abba, the ‘Diva of the Desert’, gave European audiences a first taste of music from the crossroads of African and Arabic culture with her 1990 album Moorish Music from Mauritania. A superstar in her native Mauritania, Dimi is widely regarded as its best-loved female griot - combined musical historian, biographer, social commentator, poet, soothsayer, and storyteller. Powerful, haunting vocals have won her wide critical acclaim.