 Attar's manager and official photographer during his group's 1990s recording career was his wife, Cherie Nutting, whom he had married in 1989.The two parted amicably in 1996, but she was managing him and his band again by the mid-2000s.The Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar released a live album on newly founded Jajouka Records in January 2009.