Fatou Seidi Ghali - the first female Tuareg guitarist

“My father told me to stop wasting my time. I should be busy looking after the cows" - Fatou Seidi Ghali, the first female Tuareg guitarist, says in Guardian interview, about her beginnings in music. She started playing at age 10, on her brother's guitar, secretly, so nobody would know, and now at age 20-something (doesn't have a birth certificate) she fronts the band Les Filles de Illighadad, on world tour now, and two albums behind them. They mostly play love songs and odes to nomadic life, and Ghali says her goal with the band is - “Helping the village, buying medicines, supporting my brothers and sisters".