For mothers and music lovers alike, Hello to Mama is both a song and a gift. Zap Mama, headed by Belgian-Congolese singer Marie Daulne, is donating a percentage of the song's download sales to the humanitarian organization CARE, which works with women to increase their economic prospects and offer better lives for their children.Born in Congo to a Belgian father and a Congolese mother, Daulne e...
Zap Mama's new single, "Hello To Mama," (youtube video) is now up on iTunes. The soulful latin track has an added benefit for Mamas in developing countries. Zap Mama has agreed to donate a percentage of the proceeds from the iTunes downloads to CARE, as an effort to reduce persisting high maternal mortality in the world's poorest countries."A percentage of the hard earned money paid for this tr...
Marie Daulne aka Zap Mama will release another gorgeously funky and smooth-as-Sunday-afternoon album this summer. The Belgium beauty is finishing up Supermoon which she describes as a more personal and intimate document than her previous works. The album features an amazing cast of collaborators such as Tony Allen, Meshell Ndegeocello, Michael Franti, Bashiri Johnson, David Gilmour, and Danie...
Many have criticized the term “world music” as simply a lazy catchall term for non-Western music. But Zap Mama’s founder and leader Marie Daulne embraces it—and with a musical style drawing on roots in Congo-Kinshasa, an upbringing in Belgium, and an infusion of American hip-hop and R&B, it is easy to understand why. Zap Mama opened Monday night’s show with a few tracks from their 2009 r
Put on your headphones for this one. Go ahead, do it. Now, start the song. Okay. So far so good. Wait for the beat.Now give yourself a moment to become aware that there is not one musical instrument being played in this song. This is entirely vocal.Thank you.
Marie Daulne aka Zap Mama will release another gorgeously funky and smooth-as-Sunday-afternoon album this summer. The Belgium beauty is finishing up Supermoon which she describes as a more personal and intimate document than her previous works. The album features an amazing cast of collaborators such as Tony Allen, Meshell Ndegeocello, Michael Franti, Bashiri Johnson, David Gilmour, and Danie...
Many have criticized the term “world music” as simply a lazy catchall term for non-Western music. But Zap Mama’s founder and leader Marie Daulne embraces it—and with a musical style drawing on roots in Congo-Kinshasa, an upbringing in Belgium, and an infusion of American hip-hop and R&B, it is easy to understand why. Zap Mama opened Monday night’s show with a few tracks from their 2009 r
Zap Mama's new single, "Hello To Mama," (youtube video) is now up on iTunes. The soulful latin track has an added benefit for Mamas in developing countries. Zap Mama has agreed to donate a percentage of the proceeds from the iTunes downloads to CARE, as an effort to reduce persisting high maternal mortality in the world's poorest countries."A percentage of the hard earned money paid for this tr...
Put on your headphones for this one. Go ahead, do it. Now, start the song. Okay. So far so good. Wait for the beat.Now give yourself a moment to become aware that there is not one musical instrument being played in this song. This is entirely vocal.Thank you.