The hidden talents discovered by the African Dream //

The association The African Dream is hunter and coordinator of talent throughout social networks. Every year new artists are discovered among more than 400 participants.

Here is a selection of some artists who deserve to be widely known.

Until they find cultural actors who will support them (Managers, Producers, Tour Managers, Distributors…), the African Dream offers the support of its structure (Tour Manager, Manager, Press attaché, Producer).

!!! Come and discover the African Dream artists programmed on October 14th, 15th, 16th 2011 on the big stage of the AFRICAN FEAR in Paris at the Grande Halle de la Villette: www.foireafricaine.com

Modern Music

 

>> Ablaye MBAYE & The Links // Mbalax, Jazz, Rock // www.myspace.com/ablayembayelinks

Ablaye & The Links unite France and Senegal. They found the universal language. Their cultural mix is nicely balanced without contradictions among influences, and offers the “Nu World” style, a style close to jazz-rock, m’balaax, pop, variety and movie soundtracks. Anyone finds its place in this reassuring universe.

☼☼ Ablaye MBAYE worked in collaboration with Youssou N’DOUR and went on tours with him during 7 years, Kery JAMES, Disiz La peste, Maria Carey,… The Links come from a different universe and performed with the musicians of Ry CHARLES, Désert Rebel, Pause, Nahema, Moon Zaia and Tarace Boulba…

Album to be issued in 2012: « Parlons entre nous »

Some videos to seduce you: Live « Plaisir » // « Ma demande est là » //Meadley

 

>> LËK SEN // Hip Hop, Blues, Reggae // www.myspace.com/leksen

Lëk Sèn is easily recognized thanks to this deep and touching voice and to these original melodies. A fusion of Blues, reggae, Hip Hop, World, in an acoustic style.

☼☼ Lek Sen is surrounded by some musicians of the band Amadou et Mariam, of la Mano Négra …
One video to seduce you: Solo – On RFI

Next coming concerts: On September 28th 2011 at La flèche d’or (Paris), on October 16th 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR at the Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris)

>> Melka AMANY // Soul// www.myspace.com/melkamusic

MELKA AMANY, unique sensation that does not leave us indifferent. Strength and depth, sensitivity and mastery, power and voluptuousness are mixed and attract us in the whirling motion of melodies!
MELKA AMANY, it is the invitation to travel, a soft revelation, thanks to thin and powerful melodies… an angel’s caress!!! Universal and new, her voice overwhelms us and wakes up the vocal enchantment of Tina Turner, Jackson Five, Lauryn Hill, M’bilia Bel, Angie Stone, Miriam Makeba…

Next coming concerts: On October 15th, 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR at the Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris)

>> Bomboro KOSSO // Reggae//  www.myspace.com/bomborokosso

Bomboro KOSSO presents a really African reggae, positive and copper-coloured. Bomboro Kosso asks real questions, is clearly committed. He denounces injustice, the plagues that destroy Africa. Bomboro Kosso has his own music personality, his own energy and proposes something else. A voluntarily more dancing character, maybe lighter in his form. Mixing African rhythms and Jamaican roots (and even ska), the result is convincing.

Next coming concerts: On October 20th 2011 at Paradox (Marseille) On October 22nd, 2011 at the Olympic Café (Paris)

>> Shahin eL عabkary  // Arab Rap, Hip Hop  // www.myspace.com/mistashahin

Shahin is the youngest rap singer of Y-Crew Family, Ahmed Shahin, known as sHaHin el 3abkary. He lives in Alexandria, the Hip-hop city in Egypt. When he began, Shahin was the youngest rap singer in Egypt. In 2006 he met Y-Crew Family, they helped him and showed him the way. An artist discovered thanks to his new style. Today his aim is to widen the Arab Hip-Hop culture all over the world.
☼☼ Shahin works a lot in collaboration with different rap singers from Egypt and other countries…

>> JuJuCracy // Hip Hop// www.myspace.com/sonofthedrunkardking

JUJuCracy links the sound with the picture. A very original set to be discovered. When he applied to Yaoundé University « THEATER AND CINEMA ARTS » he discovered that it was a perfect “prison” for his soul. JujuCRACY started to produce himself visual arts and music, and found in the city a new ‘FREE HOLLYWOOD’; he calls it JUJUROCK, free from any rule or norm of judgment, seeing sounds and hearing pictures.

>> JESERS // Chanson, Hip Hop, World// www.myspace.com/jesersserge
JESRS is our Mixed Gainsbourg. He likes well-done job so he started mosaic art, with words and rhythms. JESERS gets his resources from his African roots to draw horizons where songs and the importance of words brighten rhythms. Interpreter and author, he has performed thundering scene shows since 1995.

☼☼ Among his meetings in live shows, in parallel to his band La Vieille Ecole, he met MC Solaar, Jamiroquai, Saïan Supa Crew or Sergent Garcia, present in the Festivals printemps de Bourges, Eurockéennes, FrancoFolies de Montréal, Berlin, in Capo Verde, Senegal, Japon and Detroit … …
Next coming concerts: On September 24th 2011 at the Grand Casino in Bâle (Switzerland)

>> NJAAYA & Band // Hip Hop, Blues, Soul, Reggae // www.myspace.com/njaayaa

NJAAYA & Band proposes severe tones on very modern music close to RNB, Soul or Reggae. Any one who discovered these diverse performances foresees a great future in music…
☼☼ Njaaya started to work professionally in music world by working during almost two years with PBS Radikal of Didier Awadi where she was back vocalist. It is after this experience that she joined the band Alif (first band of female rap in Senegal) to gain « a more female expression » according to her words.

>> KOKI // Pop// www.myspace.com/kokiconnection

Koki, it is a crazy and beyond limits energy, crazy pop sounds and a real mix of influences from Michael Jackson, Leny Kravitz, Nirvana to Fela Kuti and Myriam Makeba! KOKI is an author/ composer / interpreter. In his music creations, Koki talks in English and in French about Human themes, universal themes such as search for happiness, hope and committed topics like racism and authoritarism.

Next coming concerts: on October 14th 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR in the Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris)

>> IAMBAD « le Show Spirale » // Slam// www.myspace.com/islamabad31

Islam presents a new form of artistic chaos. “Spirale” is a modern tale; the fusion between urban music, classic music (piano, lyric voice) and theater; all of this is accompanied by short movies where the main character is challenged to his own alter ego.

☼☼ Islam already won the Young Discoveries Award in Cannes and was supported by Luc Besson and received the support from many other talents such as Akenathon, Sexion d’assaut, Kery James…

Next coming concerts: On October 20th 2011 at the Paradox (Marseille), on October 2nd 2011 at Olympic Café (Paris)

 

Traditional / Tradi-Modern Music

>> Madou Sidiki DIABATE // Mandingo Music, Kora // www.myspace.com/madousidikidiabate

Madou is the son of Sidiki Diabaté, famous Gambian musician who emigrated to Mali before the Independence who recorded in 1971 the first kora album solo in the History of music, and son of Mariam Kouyaté, great story-teller from Mali. It is in this family environment that Madou started to play the kora with 8 strings when he was three. Music is easy as a toy and is part of his daily life. Today, he presents a Mandingo band (Kora, Guitar, Bass, Drums, Vocal), in the art of tradition…
☼☼ Madou works in collaboration with artists such as Toumani DIABATE (his brother), Cheick Tidiane Seck, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Sékouba Bambino, Alex Wilson, Ras Mickeal, Paco Sery, Jean Philippe Rykiel… ……

 

>> Ghirmay ANDOM  // Eritrean Music //www.myspace.com/ghirmayandom

Ghirmay Andom is an Eritrean author, composer and interpreter. His music is the result of his original and harmonious alliance of modern and traditional instruments played by ethnic tribes in Eritrea: “waata”, “kirar”, “koboro”, “shambuko”, “darabuka”, “abangala”, etc.

☼☼ Since his victory at the AFRO PEPITES SHOW, Ghirmay ANDOM lives better on his art in his country.

>> IKOBE // Acoustic Music // www.myspace.com/ikobemuzikgroup

IKOBE is a band of young artists from Rwanda, well motivated to make you travel through their country of 1000 hills! IKOBE shares the passion of music, this is a band which started in the university centre of arts in Butare, Rwanda. IKOBE proposes a music in which culture and ancient songs of storytellers communicate a message of life, all of this in an acoustic mix of guitars, percussions and traditional instruments such as inanga and ikembe.

>> Djeli Moussa Condé Trio // Guinean Groove // www.myspace.com/djelimoussakondetrio

Djeli Moussa has velvet fingers and sweet voice. “Djéli moussa condé” began his personal project with three musicians, with a bass, some percussions and machines, in a tribe and modern project, grazing pop and electro…

☼☼ Djéli moussa condé worked in collaboration with Manu Dibango, Salif Keïta, Mory Kante, Alpha Blondy, Césaria Evora, Hank Jones, Cheick Tydiane, Mama Keïta,

Next coming concerts: On September 24th 2011 at Olympic Café (Paris), on October 15th 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR AT Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris)

>> Mamady DIABATE & Le Vibration Mandingue //World, Jazz, Bossa, Mandingo

Mamady DIABATE is from Guinea. Talented guitarist born in a family of storytellers, his father Lamine DIABATE was a great player of Ngoni in the instrumental band of Guinea, his mother Saran KOUYATE and his sister Saran KANTE are two great Guinean music divas. At the end of 1999, he went for the first time in Europe with Sayon CAMARA, and then he moved to Portugal and traveled through many countries such as Brazil, Mexico, England… Enriched by his meetings and trips, Mamady moved to Paris and created his own band “Le Vibration Mandingue”.

☼☼ Mamady DIABATE also worked with artists such as Amadou Sodia, Mory Djely Deen KOYATE, Maciré SYLLA, Sayon CAMARA…

Next coming concerts: On October 7th and November 11th 2011 at the Olympic Café (Paris), on October 14th, 15th and 16th 2011 at the AFRICAN FEAR at Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris)

>> Dumba Kultur // Modern Tradi Mandingo  //  www.myspace.com/dumbakultur

Dumba KULTUR:  it really works, melodies remain, an attracting broken voice… The prince and the hunter to seduce you… Dumba Kultur presents Mossi rhythms, accompanied by the strings of N’goni and Kora, subtile resonances of calabash and djembe.

Painting

>> Coline LAMY // Figurative// www.myspace.com/colamy
Coline is a self-taught; drawing and pastel are her passion pleasures, giving her the opportunity to escape from the daily life and to express some emotions.
Africa had always interested her, she could not explain why. The only country she has visited by now is Morocco but she is not done yet ;o)
Coline does not paint only paintings inspired by Africa, she is inspired in the first place by the expression and the presence of some glances.

>> Patrick SINGH // Figurative//  www.myspace.com/patricksinghpaintings/photos

Painter, drawer, plastic artist, Patrick Singh was meant to meet with different cultures. On his canvas, drawing books, object books and other scrap he uses, appear Black faces of slaves deported to America and of Modern African Diaspora … or even Indian faces met in the remote regions of South America…

>> Elie DRO // Abstract // www.eliedro.com

Eli DRO is a painter creating dreams. Eli DRO presents paintings, which ask, suggest, and involve your imagination… The themes are: aids, excision, war… Eli touches with his finger the problems that anyone can develop as long as one wishes so. This strategy to make spirits deliver gives to this practice a celebration of imagination and poetry by giving space to anyone’s mind. Eli uses African mythes, parables, symbols, proverbs. Like a chameleon, he seems to hide himself through a changing skin that adapts to circumstances.

>> Le Quartier Général // Figurative//  www.myspace.com/lequartiergeneral

Le Quartier Général, it is a duet of graphic artists and illustrators sisters who create the atmosphere of a cultural Black American travel.
Le Quartier Général launches a set « Papiers Ordinaires », a figurative work of portraits entirely created with felt, big size, scale one. This project consists in series like a pagan « pilgrimage », travelling through cultures.  They want to have this project out from their workshop and go and meet diverse places to give birth to a « travel » celebrating mix.

Photography

>> Nicolas REMENE // Exhibition of Pictures from Africa // www.nicolasremene.com

Nicolas REMENE reveals treasures, resources and simple moments given by life… Nicolas makes us plunge into the atmosphere and universe of Africa.

 

>> Frédéric RIDENT // Exhibition Photos from Africa // http://rident.yellowpics.net

Frédéric is a freelance photographer. He likes very much pictures of veils and of illustrations. To him, Africa has always been a dream of life…

 

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