| Zap Mama at an appearance at the 8x10 club in Baltimore, Maryland on November 1, 2007.Marie Daulne, the leader and founder of Zap Mama, appears in the center.Zap Mama is a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne.Western world, because I know that through sound and through beats, that people discover a new culture, a new people, a new world.""The voice is an instrument itself," says Daulne."It's the original instrument.The most soulful instrument, the human voice."They sing in French and English with deep African roots.Sources of Zap Mama's music
1.First Cycle: Adventures in Afropea and Sabsylma
2.Sources of Zap Mama's music
Sources of Zap Mama's music include Daulne's roots in Congo Kinshasa, her upbringing in Belgium, and her return to Africa to rediscover her musical roots."He did not have a chance to come with us because he was captured," Daulne says."He was a prisoner of the rebels for a while, then they killed him."Her mother escaped into the jungle with Marie and was arrested by the rebels but was later set free because she spoke their language.Daulne pays tribute to those pygmies who rescued her family in the song "Gati" from Supermoon."They saved my family and many others during the Congolese rebellion," Daulne says, "and they deserve recognition for that."Marie and her sisters were eventually airlifted out to Kinshasa with their mother and flown to Belgium because their father had been a Belgian citizen.What I know that I learned from my mother is to be strong and to stay positive in any kind of situation; that's the best weapon to survive.That's what I learned, and this is the main message I pass into my music," says Daulne.African and Belgian communities."Although Daulne remembers that her mother sang some songs from Congo Kinshasa around the house, her mother did not teach them to the children, stressing mastery of French instead.Daulne listened to European music as she grew up.Since our mother did not want us to watch TV in our home, we entertained ourselves by creating our own music.Daulne was introduced to black music watching television.Then I saw an American musical comedy with black people on TV.And I couldn't believe it.My whole fantasy life was based on that movie."Daulne felt a special connection to blue songs like Damn your eyes by Etta James."That song brought me happiness while I was going through the pain of a broken love.It helped me to open the door and see the life in front of me."When I left home, I missed those songs, and in the school choir, I wondered why we didn't use African harmonising.So my sister and I started to sing African melodies, and Zap Mama was born.Her mother feared that Daulne would grow up too African and so did not teach her tribal songs.However the Belgian side of her family encouraged Daulne to explore her African heritage.Daulne made further trips to Africa.Although Daulne draws inspiration from Africa, she does not call Africa home."They treated me like a Belgian come to visit as a tourist.Marie Daulne, the founder and leader of Zap Mama, says her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with her music.Daulne defines her music over the years as evolving from an a cappella quintet to instruments and a lead voice.First Cycle: Adventures in Afropea and Sabsylma
By 1989 Daulne had returned to Belgium and spent several years singing in Brussels in jazz cafes when she decided to create a group to merge the cultures of her life and in 1990 founded the group Zap Mama."Because I wanted to put these two sounds together to prove that to have blood from white and black was perfect harmony on the inside."The original idea of Zap Mama was "five singers who would be one as the pygmy," Daulne said."The power of voices was my thing," Daule said.Daulne felt she was channeling the spirit of her Congolese ancestry so instead of using her own name, she called the group Zap Mama.Zap Mama performed their first concert in 1989.Crammed, the Belgian record label of Marc Hollander and Vincent Kenis.The five vocalists, Daulne, Sylvie Nawasando, Sabine Kabongo, Marie Alonso, and Sally Nyolo, combined the sounds of Pygmies with vocal styles of European choral traditions.The manager said that if I stopped then, I'd be killing my career, but it was my decision."Zap Mama a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album.Daulne explained that the sharper sound of Sabsylma was due to the increasing influence of American music and the sound of being on the road."We've been touring so intensively.Zap Mama was a soft, African record with a natural, round sound.Sabsylma is hectic, sharper.If you're driving in a van for months, and you constantly hear the sounds of traffic, TV, hardrock on the radio ...Daulne used an organic process to improvise her music in the studio."I'm always looking for sounds.Most of the time, I work with colors.On that, we start adding sounds.We are carried away by the music."At the same time Sabsylma was being created, Director Violaine de Villers made a documentary, Mizike Mama, (1993) that presents a group portrait of Zap Mama.The film focuses on Daulne and discusses the implications of membership in a racially mixed group that consciously fuses African rhythms and vocal tones with European polyphony.Second Cycle: Seven and A Ma Zone
After the success of the first two albums, Daulne put her music on hold for a few years to birth and mother her daughter Kesia.Adventures in Afropea and Sabslyma had both been largely a cappella.Zap Mama to record Seven, a break with the past for the inclusion of male musicians and vocalists, the increased number of instruments and the number of songs in English.The first and second albums were about the voice, what came before.Daule had traveled to Mali in 1996 and had learned from a man in Mali that in addition to the five senses known in the west, some have a sixth sense which is emotion."But not everyone has the seventh.It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony.He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it," Daulne says.I'm standing on the stage with the group.I'm meeting new people all the time and sealing these friendships with tunes," Daulne says.Third Cycle: Ancestry in Progress and Supermoon
Daulne moved to New York in 2000."I've never been welcome in any country as my own country," says Daulne."In Europe, they talk to me as if I'm from Congo.In Congo, they act like I'm from Europe.Everybody is from somewhere else."Everybody listens to it and everybody follows it.Billboard World Music Album chart.United States from 2000 to 2004 and it is a place with so many stars.When I met a lot of big celebrities I realized I was not a big star and that I didn't want to be, because your life would be a habit, stuck in this and that."When the audience appreciates the art of the artist, the audience becomes the sun and makes the artist shine as a full moon," says Daulne.I'm not complaining about it, but now it is time to show my eyes and my femininity and my delicate side," said Daulne.And if anybody challenges me, there is no problem."Zap Mama is a guest performer on the song "Comin' to Gitcha" by Michael Franti, from the album "Chocolate Supa Highway".Zap Mama is featured on the song "Danger of Love" by DJ Krush, from the album Zen.Marie Daulne is featured on the track "Ferris Wheel" from Common's 2002 album Electric Circus.Daulne is featured on the soundtrack to La Haine, a french film which she recorded with her brother Jean Louise Daulne.Common and Talib Kweli are featured on the Zap Mama song "Yelling Away" on the album Soundbombing III.Zap Mama performs with Ladysmith Black Mambazo on the Ladysmith song "Hello My Baby" on the album "Long Walk to Freedom"."Marie Daulne Is Zap Mama."The Belgium Pop and Rock Archives."Zap Mama Supermoon" by Roque Strew.Inflight Magazine of Brussels Airlines.Marie Daulne" October 1, 2007."Urban Beats and Forest Chants Harmonize in Zap Mama's A MA ZONE.""World Music: The second coming of Zap Mama" by Phil Meadley."Zap Mama: Citizen of the world" by Rick Massimo."Superswoon: Zap Mama has to be seen to be believed in" by Troy Johnson August 15, 2007.Too many keywords can constrain your search.If you want to specify which of your search terms should match the author's name and which should match the title, you should conduct an Advanced Search.Track your recent orders.Your search did not match any products.Too many keywords can constrain your search.Track your recent orders.View or change your orders in Your Account.Get your own free MySpace Backgrounds at MySpaceLayoutSupport.Zap Mama Halloween Show in NYC this Week!ZAP MAMA " with an acappella group of women .Europe and Africa )
ZAP MAMA started end 1989 , 1990.ZAP MAMA nait fin 1989 debut 1990.Daulne :Athletic lady, compose ,arrange, interprete, soundtrack,galla ,workshop,dance .Take Me Coco' from zap mama !Happy holidays Zap Mama......Auguri a tutti per un felicissimo 2008!!!!Have a wonderful New Year in 2008!I've got all of your albums.Thanks for the add, Marie Daulne has an incredible voice that will echo through the ages.Zap Mama's music is both unique and outstanding!Stay open minded, get closer to God (Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh or whatever you call Him).Save your money, because it will save your life.Repent, move forward and change your behavior.Wake up, be conscious and stay prayed up.Be blessed and may almighty God bless you always.Best Wishes, and Positive Vibes for The New Year.Best wishes from Sicily!Big love and respect to you!Love Your sweet sweet meody,beautiful sounds full of natural power...!Ancestry Album the other day...Love, love, love your music!Happy Holidays to you and your family!Thanks for checking out The Zone!And thanks for all the beautiful music...Hi Zap Mama, Toma Taboo makes me turn my radio way up!!YOU ALWAYS AN INSPIRATION....Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Sign in or join now
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