Natacha Atlas

Belgian-born singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and classical belly dancer Natacha Atlas is possessed of a throaty, expressive alto and offers a multilingual vocal approach to the fusion of Arabic and South Asian musics with Western styles, from electronica to pop to jazz standards. As a solo artist and in well-documented collaborations with more than 100 others (Peter Gabriel, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Belinda Carlisle among them), her music was born from her family's heritage of Egyptian, Palestinian, Moroccan, and Sephardic ethnicities. Her intensel...