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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

Triple Life

By Manu Koch

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

Global Noize: A Prayer For The Planet

by Jeff Winbush
November 11, 2011

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 ...

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

May 6, 2011

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 ...

On The Ebony Road

By Malika Zarra

Label: Not On Label
Released: 2006