Les artistes du festival

Diely Mori Tounkara
West Africa / Quebec
World Music

From the moment he was born, it seems that Diely Mori Tounkara had little choice but to become a musician, a great musician. This was decreed by ...

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3Ball Monterrey
Mexico

Erick Rincon, Dj Sheeqo Beat, Dj Otto and DJ Rooster are the four members of 3BallMTY (pronounced Tribal Monterrey). The four of them don’t have ...

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Abdoulaye Diabaté
Burkina Faso
World Music

Born in the southwest of Burkina Faso, Abdoulaye Diabaté showed abilities in song and dance at an early age. Coming from a line of griots, ...

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Abou Diarra
Mali
World Music

The story of Abou Diarra began in 1975 in southern Mali, continued in Abidjan, Bamako and Paris, and carries on today all over the world. ...

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Afrikelektro
Maroc-Congo-Qc

The group Afrikelektro is an alliance of two Africas, from the north and from south of the Sahara, a rare alliance, valuable and fruitful, ...

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Ahau Marino
Mexique

Finding the essence of Mexican music and bringing together African, indigenous and European roots to continue along the ancestors’ musical ...

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Aldo Guizmo
Guadeloupe / Quebec
World Music

Aldo Guizmo is a young Guadeloupean artists who blends reggae, dance hall and Creole musical styles to create something unique dreamed up ...

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Angélique Kidjo
Benin

Does Angélique Kidjo still need presenting? This energetic singer from Benin, an ardent human rights defender and above all, an ...

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Aurelio Martinez
Honduras
World Music

Aurelio Martinez is a lucky man. Coming from the Garifuna people, he benefits from a varied cultural heritage and a sharp identity, at ...

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Aziz Sahmaoui and University of Gnawa
Morocco
World Music

Aziz Sahmaoui and University of Gnawa As founder of the Orchestre national de Barbès, a vital world music group since the 1990s, Aziz ...

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Balkan Beat Box
Israël / USA
World Music

Bringing together the Jewish, Balkan, Maghreb, Syrian, Gypsy and American cultures is the crazy bet taken by Balkan Beat Box through an ...

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Banda Ayde
Brazil / Quebec

The Brazilian-inspired group Banda Aydê grew out of an encounter. In November 2010, in Montréal, Québec singer Akawui Riquelme, of ...

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BIC
Haïti
World Music

BIC thought he would become a professor and writer, but music crossed his path and changed his mind. Born in Haiti, under the name ...

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Bobo
Ivory Coast / Quebec
World Music

Bobo, alias William Atchouellou, sometimes also nicknamed Willy Bobo, comes from Côte d’Ivoire. A choreographer, dancer and singer, he has ...

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Boogat
Latin America / Canada

In February 2013, Boogat (his real name is Daniel Russo Garrido) shook up the Québec rap scene by bringing out a hip-hop album with Latin and ...

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Bumaranga
Colombia / Quebec
World Music

Bumaranga’s motto: highlight the African roots of Colombian music. With rhythms taken from various Colombian musical styles (cumbia, puya, ...

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Cristal
Cuba
World Music

The group Cristal de Cuba consists of nine women, nine original personalities, moving between tradition and modernity, finding their ...

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Dakka
Ivory Coast - Quebec
World Music

Dakka, born Seïdou Dembélé, was a child of exile, an artist forced to bow to the vagaries of history and to his own story to practise his ...

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Danakil
France
World Music

Danakil, a French reggae roots group, arose in the Paris suburbs in 2000 in a simple and obvious way: a few high school chums, all ...

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Danse sans Frontières
West Africa, Latin America, Quebec

Bringing African dancers from various parts of the continent together on the same stage and admiring their style, energy and talent ...

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DJ Touski
Quebec

Founder and resident DJ of the legendary Balkan Beat parties that sets Montreal on fire at least once a month since 3 years, Touski is DJ, ...

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Élété
Tchad / Quebec
World Music

Élété (his family name is Rimtobaye) comes from Chad, though his childhood was split between Congo-Kinshasa, the Central Republic, ...

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Funky Falz
Quebec

FunkyFalz was born Félix de Passillé in 1984 to a music-loving family. Young Félix listened to his parents’ old vinyl discs. Rock, reggae and ...

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Gisèle Ndong Biyogo
Gabon
World Music

Gisèle Ndong Biyogo, alias NBG, has a gift for storytelling, entertaining and journeying through the tales and legends of her native Africa. This ...

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Grre en famille
France - Quebec
World Music

Grre en Famille – what a funny name for a group! But in less than three years, this name has become synonymous with a new musical style, ...

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Hasna El Bécharia
Algeria
World Music

Hasna El Becharia is an oasis in a desert, an exceptional person in a world of men. A women with a strong, independent and free ...

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Heavy Soundz
Latin America / Quebec
World Music

Heavy Soundz is made up of five musicians and four MCs from Québec, Haiti, Peru and Mexico, an explosive, full-throttle mixture whose sole ...

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Herleo Muntu
RD Congo / Ontario
World Music

Herleo Muntu is an artist at the crossroads. Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he grew up in Canada, becoming immersed in both ...

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H’Sao
Chad / Quebec
World Music

H’Sao means the Swallow of the Sao, the people who were the ancestors of present-day Chadians. The group’s origin is presented in its ...

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Jah-Yey
Haïti / Quebec
World Music

From the island of Haiti to Montréal, Jah-Yey took the time to discover the Caribbean and then Florida before settling in Québec. ...

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Joe Driscoll et Sekou Kouyaté
USA / Guinea
World Music

Marseille, summer of 2010. New Yorker Joe Driscoll and Guinean Sékou Kouyaté are both at the Nuits Métis festival. They meet and play ...

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Joyce N’Sana
RD Congo / Quebec
World Music

Joyce N’Sana likes to present herself as an “AfroBluHop” artist. This is a powerful musical style, enhanced by this young women’s various ...

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Just Wôan
Cameroun

Destination Yaoundé, Cameroon. This is where Justin Itoko was born, where he grew up, and where the person who became Just Wôan lives today. ...

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Kadan's
Guadeloupe / Martinique

It was liberation for zouk fans in 2012. Finally, after years without an album, Kadan’s recorded Nou Sé Zouk, a new work that put them ...

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Kalabanté
Guinea / Quebec

Kalabanté is both a made-in-Québec show and a circus school built near Conakry, the Guinean capital. What links the two? Generous ...

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Karim Diouf
Senegal / Quebec
World Music

Born in Senegal, Karim Diouf learned to play the djembé at a very early age. In 1996, with his brother Élage, he left for Québec. ...

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Karim Saada
Algeria / Quebec

Born into a family of musicians in Algiers, Karim Saada grew up immersed in Algerian chaâbi. A musical style with a name meaning “popular,” ...

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Kassav'
Guadeloupe-Martinique

The Kassav’ adventure began in Guadeloupe in the minds of Pierre-Édouard Décimus, then a member of the group Les Vickings, and of Freddy Marshall. ...

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Krar Collective
Ethiopia
World Music

Krar Collective has met a sizable challenge: achieving a perfect blend of traditional Ethiopian music and Western influences, mostly rock and ...

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Lasso et Sini-Kan
Burkina Faso / Quebec
World Music

Lasso, whose real name is Salif Sanou, was born in Burkina Faso into a family of griots, growing up in a world where music and speech were ...

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Look Out
Haïti / Quebec

In 2010, ten young musicians of Haitian descent got together to give rise to a project, a group, a dream. This dream bears the name Look ...

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Mamselle
Mexico / Quebec
World Music

Mamselle Ruiz really is named Mamselle Ruiz. Believe it or not, this isn’t a pseudonym. As a twin, her birth came as a surprise, and a name ...

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Maréchal de Gaulle
Rwanda / Quebec
World Music

De Gaulle-Ismail Ufiteyezu, better known as Maréchal De Gaulle or DJ De Gaulle, is a Rwandan artist born in the 1960s in Nyamirambo, a ...

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Maria de Barros
Cape Verde
World Music

Being the goddaughter of Cesaria Evora is not without its problems. How not to fear being compared with the barefoot diva? However, ...

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Masala DJs
Quebec

Masala is a radio show broadcast on university station CISM for more than six years. Each week, it presents two hours of urban and ...

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Mazagan
Morocco / Quebec
World Music

Mazagan arose on the street, in 1997, through the energy and will of four teenagers, Issam, Hammouda, Abdelhak and Younes. With nowhere to go but ...

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Orquesta Aragón
Cuba

The history of Orquesta Aragón goes back to an earlier era, to Cienfuegos, Cuba, in 1939, when a handful of Cuban musicians created a ...

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Palo Cruza'o
Colombia
World Music

On either side of the border between Venezuela and Colombia, there live the Llanero people. Their unique culture is more alive than ...

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Raices, Cana y Son
Colombia / Quebec
World Music

Raices, Caña y Son, literally “Roots, Sugarcane and Son,” arose in the minds of a group of Montréal musicians, all lovers of Colombian ...

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Stooges Brass Band
USA / New Orleans

At its creation in 1996, the Stooges Brass Band made a bold bet: blending traditional brass band styles with current urban beats: hip ...

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Syncop
Algeria, Quebec
World Music

Algerian-born Karim Benzaïd, the son of two teachers, was forced to leave his native country in the early 1990s and spent his teenaged years in ...

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Tartit, Imharhan et Mamadou Kelly
Mali

The Caravan for Peace – Festival au Désert, with Tartit, Imarhan et Mamadou Kelly

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The Skatalites
Jamaïque

The Skatalites, a vital part of ska since the group’s creation, is a musical meteorite, an unforgettable energy bomb, a concentrate of ...

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Timba MM
Cuba / Quebec
World Music

This Montréal-based group, which defines itself as a “new-generation Cuban music ensemble,” was formed in November 2012. Its members all ...

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Tribaa
Guinea / Quebec
World Music

Tribaa is an African dance and percussion troupe led by Oumar N’Diaye Martinos. Its shows feature the djembé, krin, doundoun, sokho and ...

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Valérie Chéry
Brazil / Quebec

In recent years, Valérie Chéry has become a point of reference in Brazilian dance in Montréal. Curiosity, exploration and learning have led ...

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Zahia
Algeria / Quebec
World Music

Zahia is a voice, a female voice, Mediterranean, warm and powerful. She is from Algeria’s Kabylie region and mixes traditional song with pop, ...

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Zal Sissokho
Senegal, Quebec

Echoing the title of his new album, Le Partage, the sensitivity and humanity of Zal Sissokho resound on the string of his kora, as if formed a ...

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Zale Seck
Senegal / Quebec
World Music

Saliou Seck, known as Zale, had his destiny laid out before him, that of a percussionist in the heart of Senegal. Coming from a line of griots of ...

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Zekuhl
Cameroun / Quebec
World Music

Guitars, bass, balafons, mbè (a long skin drum), n'kuu or African telephone (a wooden drum with slots), doum-doum – Atna Njock, alias ...

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