If you cannot see the music player below, download the free Flash Player. Hélène and Célia Faussart were surprised with their American success in 1999. Their record, Princesses Nubiennes, became the ...

POLITICALLY, THIS may not be the best time for a French pop act to be courting American audiences, but Les Nubians have already proven it's possible to breach language and culture barriers that for 40 ...

The Afro-French sibling duo Les Nubians have always been an oddity on the R&B scene. The record industry describes them as urban alternative, but that rather ambiguous category gives the ladies a ...

The recent chart success of French duo Les Nubians’ One Step Forward is both a heartening rebuke and a disturbing indicator of our country’s xenophobic culture. Usually foreign-speaking artists have ...

In the ’60s and ’70s danceable jazz-pop in foreign languages made American radio more exciting: Jorge Ben’s “Mas Que Nada” charted when recorded by Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66; it was followed by ...

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire (ah-kin-MOO-sir-re) has just released When the Heart Emerges Glistening, his first album for major jazz label Blue Note Records. The Oakland, Calif., native was the ...

After a long couple of months’ worth of freedom fries, freedom toast and supremely disappointing freedom kissing, we quarrelsome Americans finally get an overdue helping of genuine, uncut Frenchitude, ...

Michele Norris speaks with Helene and Celia Fassart, who form the group Les Nubians. They talk about how their music blends together musical influences from their youth: jazz, soul and traditional ...