By Hortense Volle on 7 juin 2019 / Commentaires fermés sur À la Réunion, pendant le IOMMa : les femmes donnent le la ! La 8ème édition du IOMMa (le Marché des Musiques de l’Océan Indien) s’est achevée hier soir sur l’île de La Réunion. Quatre chanteuses ont…
By Lucy Ilado – Music In Africa Kenya’s Makadem and Tanzania’s Siti and the Band will represent East Africa at the 2019 edition of the Indian Ocean Music Market (IOMMA) in St Pierre, Reunion, from 3 to 6 June. The music market takes place a few days…
Nurturing young artistes has never been an easy task and yet this is exactly what Community studio in Zanzibar has dedicated itself to. The studio which was formed some five years ago aims at grooming Zanzibari’s music with the ultimate…
Musically rich and helpless in portraying pure emotion, Siti and the Band’s ‘Nielewe’ (Understand Me) builds upon the Zanzibari group’s unique blend of traditional taarab with Western and Indian Ocean influences. African societies are yet to fully embrace music as a reasonable…
It was a showing of love to fellow African artistes at Day 3 of Felabration at the New Afrika Shrine by members of the Fela Anikulapo-Kuti family as the former took to the stage to fete them during the 21st…
Sitting peacefully on the baraza facing the Indian Ocean in Stone Town’s Forodhani Gardens, musician Amina Omar Juma recalls growing up with a grandmother who loved to sing, though few around her ever knew it. On the island of Zanzibar, bound by…
Zanzibar, the mystic island and home to world renowned musicians Siti Binti Saad and Bi Kidude as well as the Festival Sauti za Busara and Zanzibar International Film Festival, is proud to have born new voices to carry on the…