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Ourida

Ourida is a French-Algerian songwriter, singer, pianist, ukulele player and a Brooklyn resident who has experienced multiple uprootings and possesses a unique sound. After winning awards and residency grants in Paris, she performed in clubs (divan du monde, baiser salé…), venues (la boule noire, le point éphémère, les trois baudets…) and festivals (main stage la fête de l’humanité, ville des musiques du monde…) then lived in Marseille before being invited to perform in Canada and Brazil.

She released her first album ‘Monkeys’ (2010) - urban songs mixing folk rock, art pop melodies, world beat undertones and jazz grooves - and played it in a French solo tour before moving to New York City. In a trio with Jonathan Levy on bass and Joe Hertenstein on drums, she played regularly in the most artistically diverse and experimentally creative clubs of the city (LunAtico, Barbès, Nublu, Atlantic Bk, Drom, Rockwood music hall, Bowery electric, Shapeshifterlab, etc). The UN Day’s chairman, after a yearly gig at the Brooklyn Borough Hall, said: “Ourida’s beautiful and inspiring music and lyrics evokes the powerful role of women in our society.”