Aziza Brahim is a Saharawi singer born in a refugee camp in Algeria. She did her first recordings for the Saharawi National Radio in the refugee camps of the self-proclaimed (1976) Saharawi state and then she toured outside the camps, in Mauritania and Algeria, as part of the National Saharawi Music Group. Presently she's working with her new group Gulili Mankoo, mixing western sahara music, senegalese rhythms, blues and rock.