![]() ![]() Tahra, who was also strikingly beautiful, did some modeling in Europe, which is how she met Iman and how, one assumes, she got connected with Pathé Marconi EMI, who gave her a record contract. ![]() Often described in Bowie literature as a “Mauritanian princess,” she was more accurately a hereditary griot, a member of Mauritania’s caste of poets and musicians (her aunt was a revered griot, Lekhdera Mint Ahmed Zeidane). Tahra Mint Hembara, the musician, was born in Néma, in southeast Mauritania, in 1959. So the most obscure cover of Bowie’s life began as a wedding gift. Aloft in the giddy state of early marriage, he happily agreed. She played the album for her new husband and suggested that he cover something from it. Sometime in 1992, Iman went on a trip to Paris and returned home with a CD made by a friend of hers. Don’t Let Me Down and Down (Tahra, 1988).ĭon’t Let Me Down and Down (Indonesian vocal). ![]()
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