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	== Summary ==		== Summary ==
	Tinariwen is a Tuareg musical collective associated with [[Tuareg guitar]], also called assouf or desert blues. Its interlocking electric guitars and communal singing carry songs of displacement, solidarity and life in the Sahara.<ref name="tin-bio">[https://www.tinariwen.com/About Tinariwen: official history]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		Tinariwen is a Tuareg musical collective associated with [[Tuareg guitar]], also called assouf or desert blues. Its interlocking electric guitars and communal singing carry songs of displacement, solidarity and life in the Sahara.<ref name="tin-bio">[https://www.tinariwen.com/About Tinariwen: official history]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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	== Music and repertoire ==		== Music and repertoire ==
	Repeating guitar figures support lead vocals and group responses. The official history identifies Tuareg melodies, Arabic popular song and Ali Farka Touré among Ibrahim's formative listening. Those encounters help explain the sound's breadth; the blues comparison alone does not describe the poetry or the community history. Tinariwen helped make this guitar language internationally audible, and [[Imarhan]] identifies the collective as part of the assouf lineage from which its own music develops.<ref name="tin-imarhan">[https://www.imarhanband.com/about-3 ~~Imarhan~~: official biography]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>		Repeating guitar figures support lead vocals and group responses. The official history identifies Tuareg melodies, Arabic popular song and Ali Farka Touré among Ibrahim's formative listening. Those encounters help explain the sound's breadth; the blues comparison alone does not describe the poetry or the community history. Tinariwen helped make this guitar language internationally audible, and [[Imarhan]] identifies the collective as part of the assouf lineage from which its own music develops.<ref name="tin-imarhan">[[Imarhan]][https://www.imarhanband.com/about-3 : official biography]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

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== Summary ==
Tinariwen is a Tuareg musical collective associated with [[Tuareg guitar]], also called assouf or desert blues. Its interlocking electric guitars and communal singing carry songs of displacement, solidarity and life in the Sahara.<ref name="tin-bio">[https://www.tinariwen.com/About Tinariwen: official history]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

== History ==
The collective developed around Ibrahim Ag Alhabib and other Tuareg musicians moving between Algeria, Libya and Mali. Cassette copying carried its songs through settlements and refugee communities before international touring expanded its audience. The early studio recording ''Kel Tinariwen'' and the later ''Amassakoul'' document different stages of that circulation.<ref name="tin-bio" />

== Music and repertoire ==
Repeating guitar figures support lead vocals and group responses. The official history identifies Tuareg melodies, Arabic popular song and Ali Farka Touré among Ibrahim's formative listening. Those encounters help explain the sound's breadth; the blues comparison alone does not describe the poetry or the community history. Tinariwen helped make this guitar language internationally audible, and [[Imarhan]] identifies the collective as part of the assouf lineage from which its own music develops.<ref name="tin-imarhan">[https://www.imarhanband.com/about-3 Imarhan: official biography]. Accessed 23 October 2026.</ref>

Selected recordings in MuGlobe:
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MwpLXKYIWk Sastanàqqàm — KEXP] — [[Tuareg guitar]].
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vACZA9dGvV4 Tinariwen (+IO:I) - Sastanàqqàm] — [[Tuareg guitar]].
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1YIgwPsX5Q Tinariwen (+IO:I) - Nànnuflày] — [[Tuareg guitar]].

== Members and collaborators ==
Ibrahim Ag Alhabib, Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni and Hassan Ag Touhami belong to a changing collective rather than a permanently fixed lineup. Its history includes women singers and successive generations of players. Consult the credits for a particular recording when identifying its performers.<ref name="tin-bio" />

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