Les Filles de Illighadad

Les Filles de Illighadad incorporate tende with guitar playing, "asserting the power of women to innovate using the roots of traditional Tuareg music".

[4] Mariama Salah Aswan left the group to begin a family; she was replaced by the second Tuareg woman guitarist, Fatimata Ahmadelher.

[1] The group toured in the US in the fall of 2019, playing in New York[5] and Detroit,[6] as a four-piece band consisting of Ghali, Akirwini, Ahmadelher, and Gahli's brother, Abdoulaye Madassane, on rhythm guitar.

[5] Writing for The New York Times, David Renard stated that the group's sound "takes the Tuareg guitar music sometimes referred to as desert blues, brought to the West by breakthrough artists from the region like Mdou Moctar, Bombino and Tinariwen, and fuses it with tendé...

The result is repetitive and hypnotic, and conveys something spiritual and solemn... but also transmits a sense of joy and playfulness that goes back to the music's roots in village life.