Excerpts are from Amazon and All Music Guide. Her albums are available on Rhapsody and at ITMS.

The swirl of Egyptian strings, hip-hop beats, love, and politics can make strange bedfellows, but Brussels-born and Washington, DC-based vocalist Natacha Atlas, chanteuse and belly dancer, makes sense of it all.

... full of exuberance, reflection, and yearning that are at once compassionate and militant ... Atlas's serpentine vocals entwine the listener in tales of passion, injustice, and the mysteries of life.

... one of the most intriguing and original artists blending international cultures into a common musical language.

... while singing in Arabic, Hindi, English and French, she draws her musical backing from drum & bass, Parisian vaudeville, R&B, ambient dance, pop, rap and film music, and never once do her sonic movements feel remotely gratuitous.

... snake-hipped, seductive, and sophisticated with a feral emotional core ... the songs swell shaabi style, incorporating trippy beats, guttural cries, sinuous strings, and a disturbing yet undeniable beauty ...

This is music of the cells, the body, and the roaming spirit; yet another way to free the mind and have the flesh follow.