Veyrouz Mint Seymali is the heiress of an exceptional musical lineage.

Daughter of Dimi Mint Abba, the ‘Diva of the desert’, who passed away in June 2011, Veyrouz has sung with her mother on the international stage since the age of six.

Her father, Seymali Ould Ahmed Vall, was the first Mauritanian artist to receive a diploma from the school of Arabic Beaux-Arts in Lebanon and her maternal grandfather wrote Mauritania’s national anthem. There is no doubt that Veyrouz Mint Seymali will take Mauritanian music around the world.

Veyrouz has both a tremendously powerful voice (deeper than her mother's) and a strong musical instinct, which go straight to audience's hearts, whether or not you speak Hassanya the language of Mauritania.

The group of musicians that accompany Veyrouz are the same ones that used to play with her mother. They are her biological or ‘adopted’ brothers. With them, the music is as much about the story of their family as it is about virtuoso performances.

Veyrouz is the step sister of Nora Mint Seymali (same father, different mothers).