MASERU, Lesotho — Puseletso Seema is musical royalty in the tiny African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, where she's known as "the Queen of Famo" -– a popular genre of pastoral accordion music beloved by the country's people, the Basotho.

But for all her fame, she never got rich, and the 77-year-old grandmother's living conditions these days are far from regal.

She resides in a small, run-down home along a dusty road in the rural areas outside the capital, where small boys ride donkeys under the shadows of the mountains, and shepherds wrapped in colorful, patterned blankets watch over flocks of sheep.

It's winter, with strikingly clear blue skies and snow on the distant mountain peaks. Seema doesn't have money for electricity and is not well, coughing a lot as she reminisces about becoming

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