Souad Massi / The Best Of Souad Massi

The world loves an enigma, and enigmas rarely come as talented, beautiful, honest and courageous as Souad Massi. Her music has been welcomed as a brave new dawn in the history of Maghrebi music. Her youthful obsessions with western rock, folk, country music, as well as the chaabi and classical andalusian music of her native land, gave birth to a style uniquely her own, an emotionally charged vehicle for themes of loss, nostalgia and the bonfire of innocence. She is now one of the leading female World Music Artists, having sold over 300,000 albums around the world. She has stamped her own identity, her own style, with her culture-blending sound - a mix of traditional, rock, folk, classical, flamenco, while her ballads are melodic, poignant, achingly beautiful. Just as Souad Massi herself is all light and shade, innocence and experience, melancholy and optimism, so is this beautiful representation of the best of her 3 albums reinterpreted, recorded during her World tour in 2007.