Bowmboi

Rokia Traoré is only twenty-seven years old and is already recognized as one of the greatest voices in all of Africa today. She comes to us from Mali, from Bamako, without the slightest doubt in her mind, as her talent is backed up by strength and serenity. Full of freshness and nerve, and with natural authority and great integrity in her artistic choices, she has already charmed many of the most influential musicians on the African continent. A handsome calling card for this young singer at a time when she is about to step up onto international stages.

Already a winner of the "RFI Discoveries - Africa 1997" and a revelation at the "Musiques Métisses of Angoulême", Rokia Traoré creates a deliciously original and appealing music that is resolutely based on tradition and opens up onto a tempered modernity that never makes any sacrifices to the "merging" trends of Western World Music. If Rokia Traoré innovates and imposes an already singular voice in contemporary African music, it is as a responsible artist aware of the forms she wishes to be part of. A music that dares new and exciting instrumental melting pot by inventing orchestral colors that depict with sweet nostalgia the mischievous compositions of the singer.