Fatoumata Diawara - A - LIVE at Afrikafestival Hertme 2010

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Performance - 10 july 2010
Malian singer Fatoumata Diawara (aka Fatou) was born of Malian parents in the Ivory Coast in 1982. As a child she became a member of her father's dance troupe and was a popular performer of the wildly flailing didadi dance from Wassoulou, her ancestral home in western . She was an energetic and headstrong girl and at the age of twelve her refusal to go to school finally prompted her parents to send her to live and be disciplined by an aunt in Bamako. She was not to see her parents again for over a decade.

Her aunt was an actress, and a few years after arriving, Fatou found herself on a film set looking after her aunt's infant child. The film's director was captivated by Fatou's adolescent beauty and she was given a one line part in the final scene of the film 'Taafe Fangan' ('The Power of Women'). This led to her being given a lead role by the celebrated director Cheick Omar Sissoko in his 1999 film 'La Genèse' (Genesis).

At the age of eighteen Fatou travelled to Paris to perform the classical Greek role of Antigone on stage. After touring with the production she returned to Mali where she was given the lead in Dani Kouyaté's popular 2001 film 'Sia, The Dream of the Python'. The film tells the story of a West African legend called Sia, a young girl who defies tradition. To many in Mali, Guinea, Senegal and Burkina Faso, Fatou is Sia thanks to the film's enormous success throughout the region. Offers for further acting roles poured in but Fatou's family wanted her to settle down and marry and forced her to announce, live on Malian television, that she was abandoning her career as an actress.

In 2002 Jean-Louis Courcoult, the director of the renowned French theatre company, Royale de Luxe, travelled to Bamako to offer Fatou a part in his new production. An unmarried woman is considered a minor in Malian society so her family's permission was required. They refused. After much soul searching Fatou took the daring decision to run away and at Bamako airport she managed to board a plane for Paris, narrowly escaping the pursuit of the police who had been alerted to the girl's 'kidnapping'.

With Royal de Luxe Fatou performed a variety of roles around the world including tours in Vietnam, Mexico and throughout Europe. During rehearsals and quiet moments she took to singing backstage for her own amusement. She was overheard by the director and was soon singing solo during the company's performances. Encouraged by the reception from audiences she began to sing in Parisian clubs and cafes during breaks from touring. Here she met Cheikh Tidiane Seck the celebrated Malian musician and producer who invited her to travel with him back to Mali to work on two projects as chorus vocalist; 'Seya' the GRAMMY nominated album by Mali's star Oumou Sangaré and 'Red Earth' the GRAMMY winning Malian project by American jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater. When the albums were released Fatou toured worldwide as singer and dancer with both projects.

On her return to France Fatou took the role of Karaba in the popular touring musical 'Kirikou and Karaba'. She was encouraged to take the role by her friend Rokia Traore who also inspired her to take up the guitar: "To me it was a wonderful and daring thing: a Malian girl with an acoustic guitar. Why should the guitar be only for men?" Fatou bought herself a guitar and started to teach herself, and at the same time began to write down her own compositions.
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Is this not just an amazing woman?? One has to follow what is in your heart and soul, life, is the gift from the universe and the path has its barriers and it is too bad when it is family though they are part of the journey ~ and all of us - when we share with one another- our life gift, we then have a more beautiful world. Peace - Love - & Light 💖

marysalvi
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Gratidão por esse som lindo, o Brasil ama vocês!

raianelima
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one of my favorites - the vocal work is amazing

GregoryPearsonMusic
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Ma Couse tu es digne ambassadrice de la culture malienne . Je suis fan de toi et je t'aime... .

alassanecamara
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Love for all of her music from Indiana, USA<3

Gnatgrits
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Huyu mwanadada ni dhahabu (this lady is gold).
Much respect, from Kenya.

cobwebtheorem
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Diawara, u r very beautiful thus your voice. A good abasador to our culture through music. Much love from Kenya.

danielmaina
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Je t'aime très fort Fatou ! I love your music, your people et l'Afrique dans ensemble ! I missed you, I can't wait to watch & hear more from you ma belle ! Je te remercie pour être' la..

GratefulToday
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Ta voix est si puissante et si joyeuse. Tu m'as complètement transporté avec ta musique. Bravo aux musiciens qui ont su enveloppé cette voix magnique. Farafi o bè yé môgô fari o yé. An bè bena wiri ka anka fasso o dan. O ka an nègè ka dèssè, o tena sé an koro.
Fière d'etre Africaine!

anaweliliam
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La voir d'O Fatoumata diawara elle est magnifique fière au Mali bh Bravo bravo🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱

lassanacoulibaly
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Franchement le blanc il faut faire tout ça Fatoumata diawara Bravo bravo tu as raison du courage bravo fière au Mali bah🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱🇲🇱

lassanacoulibaly
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That the song I never heard in my life
It's been the best for me
Thanks u so much

backhome
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very nice song of fatou diawara one love

samakemamadou
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Fatoumata diawara Bravo bravo fière au Mali bh Bravo bravo

lassanacoulibaly
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FATOUMATA AVEC LA SOURIRE EST TRÈS BELLE N°1 DE L’AFFRIQUÉ JE L'AIME BEAUCOUP

harakatabdelmjid
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Love it thanks beautiful sister FAATUMO.

mm.joseph
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I love the music coming from this part of Africa it sounds so powerful

jabarmalid
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Elle avais commencé très tôt. Fatimata Diawara ILoveYou

kaisaroepou
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*elle chante super bien je suis sénégalais mais je l'adore beaucoup fatoumata alias sia*

moussafallok
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Ohhh..Her smile it's a quenching...rich very rich

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