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Zalyka

ZALYKA - Lead singer-Author-Composer

About Me

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Zalyka is a singer with the disconcerting voice and with an entrancing charm, which knew to absorb various musical tendencies. Having caught the virus of the music as of its youth, Zalyka is today the portrait of an accomplished artist a near to her African roots (from Guinea Bissau more exactly). She carries it in its hot and powerful voice, which transfers us onto vibrating and sensual melodies Author, Composer, Lead Singer, she matured her talent within multiple Parisian Gospel Choirs (Gospel for 100 voices, Ntemo Gospel, Ometis Gospel, Kolorz Gospel). She will have the opportunity to perform as a lead singer or a chorist, on mythical scenes like Bercy, the Palais des sports, the Cirque d’Hiver, the Moulin-Rouge, the Olympia or Roland Garros. She participes to several festivals (festival of Gospel of Paris from 93 to 98, Festival of Jazz in Bale into 96, Festival of voice of Saint Jean de Luz into 99, World days of youth in Rome in 2000), and will be regularly requested for its vocal talents for TV shows and studios. She performed with notorious artists in France as Liz McComb, Rhoda Scott, Gilbert Becaud, Michel Fugain, Pierpoljak, Carol Fredericks, Patrick Fiori, Nilda Fernandez…). She starts her career solo by setting up arrangements on its compositions, with the assistance of Ibrahima Koundoul member of the Senegalese group Xalam. Its objective will be then to create its own group. It is thing made in January 2003 when she decides to collaborate with other musicians who will join this project. She will be able to be thus devoted to the development of its first album.…).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/19/2006
Band Members: Ibrahima Coundoul - Percussionnist and arranger, Roger Kom -Saxophonist, Pascal Muller - Acoustic guitar, Christophe Campo - Bass guitar.
Influences: So many artists have inspired me: Dianne Reeves, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Richard Bona, Sarah Vaughan, Tracy Chapman, Jose Carlos Schwarz, Angelique Kidjo, Des'ree, Sounds of blackness, Incognito, Brand New Heavies, Luther Vandross, George Benson, Al Jarreau, Donnie McClurkin, Richard Smallwood, Xalam, Myriam Makeba, Abeti, Withney Houston, Michaël Jackson, Otis Reeding, Stevie Wonder, Tina Turner, Brian McKnight, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Angie Stone, Sade, Bob Marley, Keziah Jones, Bill Withers...
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None