The music of Natacha Atlas is exotic to Western ears: Egyptian orchestras soaring over dancehall beats and Spanish guitar riffs set to the rhythms of the Mahgreb. Her new CD, Mish Maoul, has all those ...

Natacha Atlas once remarked on a trip to Israel that she was a "human Gaza Strip" such was the conflict of cultural DNA making up her family gene pool. Nowadays the diminutive singer shies away from ...

For Mish Maoul (an Egyptian expression meaning “unbelievable”), Natacha Atlas has reunited with Nick Page and Count Dubulah of Transglobal Underground, now of the Temple of Sound. This record runs the ...

Natacha Atlas is rather good at challenging assumptions. It may help to explain why the belly-dancing multi-lingual singer-songwriter is now a UN Goodwill Ambassador. She’s recorded with Transglobal ...

Natacha Atlas was one of the icons of multicultural 1990s pop, and for the past 11 years her solo albums have continued her experiments in mixing north African and Middle Eastern styles with western ...

October 5, 2010 • The sounds and ideas on Mounqaliba rub against one another and ultimately produce sparks, even light. Atlas hones the contradictions of her tangled heritage into an enchanting ...

North African and Arabian music is given a modern, dance-inspiring twist by Brussels-born and Washington, D.C.-based vocalist Natacha Atlas. A former singer for techno-pop band Transglobal Underground ...