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Malika Zarra

Moroccan French world jazz singer/composer/producer, MALIKA ZARRA is a multi-cultural shape-shifter, an enchantress who leaps effortlessly between seemingly unconnected languages and traditions, uniting them while utilizing each to further enrich the others. The exotically beautiful artist with the velvety, sinuous mezzo-soprano voice has demonstrated a rare ability to communicate both powerful and subtle ideas and feelings in French, English and Moroccan Arabic and is now a much-in-demand headliner at nightclubs and festivals the world over. Malika was born in Southern Morocco, in a little village called Ouled Teima. Her father's family was originally from M'Hamid, an oasis just off the Sahara, while her mother was a Berber from the High Atlas

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

2024 Winter JazzFest: The Out-of-Towners

Read "2024 Winter JazzFest: The Out-of-Towners" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


New York's Winter JazzFest is a happening where globetrotters discover our scene's goings-on. It's also the place where New Yorkers get chance to hear music from abroad (or at least from out of town), including by musicians featured here. Enjoy a playlist which will make you want to go to see them live! Happy ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

Album

Triple Life

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2011
Track listing: New Year's Labyrinth - Organic Crimes - Triple Life - Via Expansion - Intermezzo - Sphere Six - Upper Leads - Asa - Launching

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Article: Extended Analysis

Global Noize: A Prayer For The Planet

Read "Global Noize: A Prayer For The Planet" reviewed by Jeff Winbush


Global Noize A Prayer For The Planet Lightyear/EMI 2011 Global Noize isn't simply a rather unconventional band. It's also a high concept on a mission. Take a musician with plenty of experience making jazz and pop music (keyboardist Jason Miles), mix in a turntablist (DJ Logic, who knows his way ...

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News: Interview

Moroccan Jazz Singer Malika Zarra Embraces Her Heritage on "Berber Taxi"

Moroccan Jazz Singer Malika Zarra Embraces Her Heritage on "Berber Taxi"

Whether one is improvising, composing or even just playing songs, music is a declaration of self. This is never more apparent than with singer and composer Malika Zarra. Born in Morocco and raised in France, Zarra draws upon her roots to inform her jazz by adding elements of North African chaâbi and well as traditional Moroccan ...

Album

On The Ebony Road

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2006


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