World Music

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Michael Franti speaks to the unity of mankind, K'Naan describes the difficulties of being a refugee in a new country and Nasjota rap about the Sudanese homeland. Then Aterciopelados sings about the misplaced love of money and Hadj N'Diaye bemoans third world debt. We clse with DDT's anthem to the Kursk tragedy.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

Music videos from around the globe.

El Puchero Del Hortelano sing about serious matters in a most airy way, while Jair Oliveira sings about the need for play. Terne Chave turn in a high powered performance that swings and percolates, and Adriana Lucia peddles her bicycle spreading flowers and good vibes. Peret plays a doctor dealing with a lying patient, and Gael Garcia Bernal brings us a song from Rudo y Cursi that's a send up of Mexican videos.

Life and death get equal time in this block. Manu Chao deplores politics, Lila Downs sings about the slain human rights lawyer Digna Ochoa and Aterciopelados plead for a cleanup of the river that runs through Bogota. Then Korean Jang-Sa-ik sings a song about a soul trying to find its way to heaven, Techung sings a Tibetan folk song about the starry sky and Cibelle gives a delicate interpretation of a Tom Waits eulogy.