Natu Camara

An Ivory Coast native raised in Guinea, Natu Camara was a founding member of Guinea’s all-woman hip-hop collective Ideal Black Girls in the early 2000s. Now New York based, she “mixes Wests African soul, rock, and pop music. As a builder of inter-cultural bridges, Camara uses her songs to bring people together, weaving a tapestry of musical stories and visions of her beloved home” (Bob Boilen / Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST). “Though constitutionally upbeat, Camara’s work is rooted in desolation: she came to her current musical incarnation in the wake of her husband’s death from cancer, playing a guitar he had gifted to her as a wedding present. Through woe, she radiates” (Jay Ruttenberg, “The New Yorker”).