Oum El Ghaït Benessahraoui, better known as Oum, from Casablanca, Morocco, is a singer-songwriter of modern Moroccan popular music. Oum, who grew up in Marrakech, is inspired by Hassani poetry (Moroccan desert culture) and African rhythms. She interprets her lyrics in Moroccan Arabic (Darija), French, English and Spanish. At the young age of fourteen, Oum […]