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Fatoumata Diawara

Malian singer

Musical artist

Fatoumata Diawara (Bambara: ߝߊ߫ߕߎߡߕߊ ߖߊ߯ߥߙߊ߫, romanized:&#;Fatumta Jawara, born ) is a Malian singer-songwriter currently[when?] living in France.

Diawara began her career as an actress in theatre and in film, including Genesis (), Sia, The Dream of the Python () and Timbuktu ().

She later launched a career in music, collaborating with numerous artists and releasing three studio albums beginning with debut Fatou.

Fatoumata diawara biography sample Diawara took up the guitar and began composing her own material, writing songs that blend Wassoulou traditions of southern Mali with international influences. Her family wanted her to settle down and refused to give her permission to join the renowned French theatre company, Royale de Luxe. Diawara was born in in the Ivory Coast to Malian parents. Retrieved 3 July

Diawara's music combines traditional Wassoulou with international styles.

Early life

Diawara was born in in the Ivory Coast to Malian parents. As an adolescent, she was sent back to their native Bamako in Mali to be raised by an aunt. When she was eighteen, Diawara moved to France to pursue acting. She briefly returned to Mali for a film role, but fled back to Paris to avoid being coerced into marriage by her family.[1]

Film and theatre

After moving to France, Diawara appeared in Cheick Oumar Sissoko's feature film Genesis, Dani Kouyaté's popular film Sia, le rêve du python, and in the internationally renowned street theatre troupe Royal de Luxe.

She also played a leading role in the stage adaptation of the musical Kirikou et Karaba.[2]

Simultaneously with pursuing her musical career, Diawara has continued her cinematic activities, with numerous roles, appearances, and musical input in multiple feature films, including in Timbuktu, which won seven César Award nods and an Academy Award nomination in [3]

Musical career

Diawara took up the guitar and began composing her own material, writing songs that blend Wassoulou traditions of southern Mali with international influences.[4] She has said that she is "the first female solo electric guitar player in Mali".[5]

Diawara has performed or recorded with Malian and international stars such as Cheick Tidiane Seck, Oumou Sangaré,[6] AfroCubism,[7]Dee Dee Bridgewater (on Red Earth: A Malian Journey),[8] and the Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou.[9] The EP Kanou was released May 9, She wrote every song[10] on her debut albumFatou from World Circuit Records that released in September [11] (Nonesuch Records released the Kanou EP digitally in North America on September 27, , and the album Fatou on August 28, ).[12]

In September , Diawara was featured in a campaign called "30 Songs / 30 Days" to support Half the Sky, a multi-platform media project inspired by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's book.[13] September also saw her board the Africa Express Train with Damon Albarn, Rokia Traoré, Baaba Maal, Amadou & Mariam, Nicolas Jaar, and the Noisettes, amongst many others.

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The show culminated in a k venue in Kings Cross where Fatoumata performed with Paul McCartney.[14]

Diawara has spent recent years touring the world,[15] with a landmark performance for the English-speaking public at the Glastonbury Festival.[16] Alongside many European gigs, her schedule has taken her to South America, Asia and Australia,[17] as well as on multiple trips to the US, where in September she performed as part of the Clinton Global Initiative alongside The Roots in New York.[18] Since mid she has collaborated with Roberto Fonseca, with numerous live performances and a joint live album, At Home - Live in Marciac, along the way.

In she also performed with Mayra Andrade and Omara Portuondo. February saw her first live concert as an established international star in Mali, her home country, Festival sur le Niger[19] in Ségou, where she shared the stage once again with her long-time friend and mentor, Oumou Sangaré,[citation needed]Bassekou Kouyate, and many other domestic Malian acts.

Diawara was featured in the Gorillaz single "Désolé", which later appeared on their album Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez.[20] She performed a Tiny Desk home concert in February [21] Later that year, she published the album Maliba, created as a soundtrack for a Google Arts and Culture project to digitise manuscripts held in Timbuktu.

The album was characterised by The Economist as "a wondrous work of cultural preservation from one of the biggest names in contemporary African music".[22]

Style

Noted for her "sensuous voice,"[23] Diawara sings primarily in Bambara, the national language of Mali, and builds on the tradition of "songs of advice" from the culture of her ancestral Wassoulou region.[24] In her songs, Diawara has addressed issues such as the pain of emigration; a need for mutual respect; the struggles of African women; life under the rule of religious fundamentalists, and the practice of female circumcision.[24] One song that exemplifies her focus on these topics is "Mali-ko (Peace/La Paix)", a seven-minute song and video that criticises the fundamentalist conquest of Northern Mali and urges unity to quell resentment against the Tuareg minority whom some blamed for abetting the incursion.[10] Diawara said about the song, ""I needed to scream with this song, 'Wake up!

We are losing Mali! We are losing our culture, our tradition, our origins, our roots!'".[10]

Recognition and awards

She received two nominations at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards for Best World Music Album for her album Fenfo and Best Dance Recording for "Ultimatum" in which she was featured with the English band Disclosure.[25]

Filmography

  • Taafe Fanga by Adama Drabo
  • La Genèse by Cheick Oumar Sissoko: Dina
  • Sia, le rêve du python by Dani Kouyaté: Sia
  • Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry, by Cheick Fantamady Camara: Siré
  • Encourage, by Eleonora Campanella
  • Ni brune ni blonde, by Abderrahmane Sissako
  • Les Contes de la Nuit, by Michel Ocelot (voice)
  • The Africa Express, by Renaud Barret and Florent de La Tulle: Herself
  • Timbuktu (Le chagrin des oiseaux), by Abderrahmane Sissako[26]
  • Morbayassa, by Cheick Fantamady Camara: Bella
  • Mali Blues, by Lutz Gregor: Herself
  • Yao, by Philippe Godeau: Gloria

Stage performances

Discography

Albums

Singles and EPs

Collaborations

With Les Balayeurs du désert

Via association with Royal de Luxe; several of the songs had been played as accompaniment in Royal de Luxe's 'giant marionettes' street performances throughout the world.

References

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    "Fatoumata Diawara: London Ko review – exuberance rules". The Observer. ISSN&#; Retrieved 3 July

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External links

  • Official website
  • BBC Radio 3 - World Routes, November 13, , accessed June 8,
  • "Field Report: Festival Sur le Niger " by Tom PryorArchived at the Wayback Machine, accessed November 11,
  • Chabasseur, Eglantine.

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    "Fatoumata Diawara Reinvented", RFI musique, April 8, , accessed June 8,

  • Cummings, Tim. “Oumou Sangare, Barbican Hall, London”, The Independent, April 28, , accessed June 8,
  • Denselow, Robin. "Orchestre Poly-Rythmo: Cotonou Club", The Guardian, March 24, , accessed June 8,
  • Forgan, Kat.

    "Staff Brenda Bilili". Songlines, July , pp.&#;–

  • Phillips, Glyn. "AfroCubism", , accessed June 8,