Zap Mama

Zap Mama is a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne. She says that her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with music. "What I would like to do is bring sounds from Africa and bring it to the Western world, because I know that through sound and through beats, that people discover a new culture, a new people, a new world." They sing in French and English with deep African roots.

Zap Mama
Zap Mama at an appearance at the 8x10 club in Baltimore, Maryland on 1 November 2007. Marie Daulhe center.
Background information
Genres	World music
Years active	1991-present
Labels	Luaka Bop Heads up International
Website	www.zapmama.com
Members	Marie Daulne

Zap Mama performed their first concert in 1989. In 1991, the group recorded their first record, Zap Mama, at Studio Daylight in Brussels, Belgium. The album was released by Crammed Discs.

Discography

• Zap Mama (1991)
• Adventures in Afropea 1 (1993)
• Sabsylma (1994)
• Seven (1997)
• A Ma Zone (1999)
• Ancestry in Progress (2004)
• Supermoon (2007)
• ReCreation (2009)

Zap Mama Media

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  Marie Daulne, the founder and leader of Zap Mama, says her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with her music. Daulne specializes in polyphonic, harmonic music with a mixture of heavily infused African instruments, R&B, and Hip-hop.

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  Daulne (center) performs with Zap Mama at Bumbershoot 2007 in Seattle on September 3, 2007

Other websites

• Zap Mama on Facebook