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Add to My Profile | More VideosBorn in Safi - a city on the Atlantic coast of Morocco, Monsif is the fruit of a marriage between a mother of a west African roots and a Moroccan father. It is these mixed origins that had shaped his artist sensitivity.As a child, he discovered Gnawa music (a mixture of black African and Morocco rhythms). In his teenage years, all his attention had been directed to the Reggae, a music by which he was extremely charmed. The Jamaican music and its masters ( Bob Marley, Burning Spear..) as well as the mixings made by Alpha Blondy seduced him, and pushed him to opt not only for singing Reggae music, but also composing it.After having formed a Reggae band in the middle of the 90th and presented his first concerts, Monsif started a career of a solo artist.
In 1999, he launched his very first album entitled: BARAKA
Meanwhile, he continued his performances on the stage.
In 2001, he performed series of successful concerts among which there was the unforgettable NEW MORNING.In August 2004, Monsif was back to perform for the first time in his country Morocco, exactly in Casablanca. That concert was a real first success attended by more than 25,000 spectators, but was not a last.Later in 2004, Monsif created in his city Safi, the ADAF association which undertook the organization of the first edition of the annual Trans-Atlantic Festival of Doukkal-Abda in July 2005. During this festival, he performed in his original city Safi, in a concert that attracted more than 50,000 life music fan.His latest album EXODE is a harmonious mixture of rhythms concocted in Ariwa studios in London. with Mad Professor.With his modern and original Reggae, Monsif will certainly not stop seducing the fans of mixed music with both his Jamaican vibrations and Arabo-African melodies.***************************************************
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Add to My Profile | More VideosMonsif est né à Safi, une ville de la côte atlantique du Maroc, d'une
mère originaire d'Afrique de l'Ouest et d'un père marocain. Cet environnement métissé va déterminer sa sensibilité d'artiste.
Enfant il découvre la musique Gnawa (mélange de rythmes d'Afrique Noir et du Maghreb).
C'est durant son adolescence qu'il va prendre un virage Reggae : la découverte de la musique jamaïcaine et de ses maîtres (Bob Marley, Burning Spear, ) ainsi que du métissage opéré par Alpha, Blondy vont peu à peu l'inciter à composer.
Après avoir monté, un groupe de reggae au milieu des années 90 et fait ses premiers concerts, il se lance dans une carrière solo.
Il sort en 1999 son premier album : BARAKA.
Il poursuit sur sa lancée avec des prestations scéniques.
2001 apporte une série de concerts dont le mémorable
New Morning.
Son nouvel album intitulé EXODE est une savante mixture concoctée dans les studios Ariwa à Londres (avec un des maïtres incontestés de la dub, Mad Professor).
Avec son reggae moderne et original, Monsif ne va certainement pas cesser de séduire les amateurs des musiques métissées entre vibrations jamaïcaines et mélodies arabo-africaines.
