Home Quote by Devendra Banhart

I grew up listening to Hindi music, ghazals and all.

— Kubra Sait

I like to listen to Congolese music because when I was a kid with my father, he took me to play some tournaments in…

— Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Growing up, I always had Indian music playing around the house.

— Jonita Gandhi

My childhood was filled with music and singing and a passion for traditional Yemenite songs, picked up from my mother.

— Ofra Haza

My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.

— Jain

I grew up in a kibbutz in the Galilee, but we were surrounded by Arabic villages, so I heard all these sounds and all…

— Maya Beiser

Many people love my music. Many do not understand it. In general my music is more easily understood by younger people in Mali, and…

— Vieux Farka Toure

In Mali, you hear music everywhere. What is fantastic in Mali is the music tradition is handed down from father to son orally. It…

— Ludovico Einaudi

I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats,…

— Mabel

As I've learned in the past few years, Mali is home to some of the most incredible musicians in the world.

— Nick Zinner

I'm a Punjabi and I grew up listening to songs like 'Latthe di Chaddar,' one of my first singles.

— Neha Bhasin

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

— Adam Lambert