Zap mama biography
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Zap Mama
Main Stage
Sunday 14•July•2024
17:05•18:05
The arrival of a "best of” is clear evidence that front-woman Marie Daulne is still seeking and finding new musical pathways. The Congo-born and Brussels-raised composer, activist, singer and teacher of vocal polyphony has held the reins at Zap Mama since the start of the 1990s.
With her début in 1991 on David "Talking Head” Byrne’s Luakabop label with "Adventure in Afropea”, she stayed at the top of the World Music Billboard charts for 11 weeks, toured Europe, America and Japan and shared the stage with acts including The Neville Brothers, Al Jarreau and Bobby McFerrin. Her polyphonic acapella women's quintet allows the world to discover something she refers to as "Afropean” music, targeted at an increasingly substantial and vocal bi-cultural generation of Afro-Europeans. Daulne effortlessly blends music and fashion and equips her ethnically inspired songs with a hefty dose of often transcendental mu
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Zap Mama
Marie Daulne, the founder and fronting member of ZAP MAMA since the early 1990s, has lived a life that rivals Homer's Odyssey. Filled with peril and triumph, globe-spanning quests, and a series of personal achievements that seem almost heroic in scope, her story is one of epic proportions in the annals of world music. Born in the Congo, but raised in Belgium, Marie spends her life crossing continents and winning the hearts of thousands of fans, while introducing her musical heritage to the world and uniting musical cultures through the wonders of voice, music, and dynamic performance.
After studying painting and art history in high school and college, Daulne made a pilgrimage in her late teens back to the land of her birth. In doing so, she reconnected with the pygmy culture, and discovered that the African music of her early childhood was still very much alive within her.
The resulting experience, she recalls, was nothing short of an epiphany - one that changed the cour
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Zap Mama
Marie Daulne, the founder and fronting member of Zap Mama since the early 1990s, has lived a life that rivals Homer’s Odyssey. Filled with peril and triumph, globe-spanning quests, and a series of anställda achievements that seem almost heroic in scope, her story fryst vatten one of epic proportions in the annals of world music. She stands with one foot firmly planted in tradition and the other in the progressive sounds and sensibilities of a new century, and she consistently merges the two with an effortless grace that never fails to mesmerize.
Born in the Congo, but raised in Belgium, Marie spends her life crossing continents and winning the hearts of thousands of fans, while introducing her musical heritage to the world and uniting musical cultures through the wonders of voice, music and dynamic performance.
“My early childhood was filled with the music of my mother, the music of the Congo,” Daulne recalls. “We had the radio when inom was growing up in Belgium, so we heard a lot of