ZAP MAMA
Singer, songwriter and vocalist Zap Mama has influenced Urban and World Music
for more than twenty years. Marie Daulne, known as Zap Mama has fused African sounds of World Poly-Rhythms and Popular Music to create a new sound that enhances Urban, Afro Beat and Alternative Hip Hop. Zap Mama has topped the Billboard Charts with a sound that pleases the pallets of Alternative Latin, Jazz, Urban, Nu Soul and Soft Hip Hop connoisseurs of music.
The Belgian-Congolese singer, composer, activist, teacher MARIE DAULNE a.k.a ZAP MAMA incorporates a myriad of sounds of the whole world, but especially those of the African Diaspora, mixed with European and American Soul traditions.
Marie Daulne, the daughter of a Belgian father and a Congolese mother, was born in the East Zaire City of Isiro, she flew Congo with her mother during a rebellion which took place when she was just born and which took her father life. During the uproar they hid inside the forest taken care by a pygmies tribe an event that was crucial for Marie and got her to go back to Congo later on during her life on a voyage to discover her african roots.
Marie always says:
"The voice is an instrument itself, It's the original instrument, the primary instrument, the most soulful instrument, the human voice”.
Zap Mama has released seven full-length albums:
Zap Mama (1991)
re-released in 1993 as Adventures in Afropea 1 (minus the single track Etupe)
Sabsylma (1994)
Seven (1997)
A Ma Zone (1999)
Ancestry in Progress (2004)
Supermoon (2007)
ReCreation (2009).
The soon to be released album “ECLECTIC BREATH” proposes a new concept from Zap Mama a series of “dance a cappella polyphonic compositions” combined with the new beat boxers generations, celebrating Zap Mama’s 25 years career.
BAND LINE UP:
Lead Singer
Singer
Singer
Drums
Bass
Guitar
Keyboards
Beat box
For booking please contact:
Maurizio Della Fortuna - Live Music Band Agency
TECHNICAL RIDER