As one of the newest world music stars, Hindi Zahra is also brilliant in her mysteriousness. She was 15 when she said farewell to her Berber mother and, interrupting her studies, moved from Morocco to live with her French father in Paris. While working at the Louvre, she composed several dozen songs, four of which she recorded on her 2009 EP Hindi Zahra. Two of them - A Beautiful Tango and Stand Up - immediately shot up on the charts, and a few months later her first album, Handmade, was released by a top music label. She came, saw and conquered, winning awards like the Victoire de la musique, France's equivalent to the Grammy Award.
Rapturous reports remarked on the influence of Billie Holiday, Norah Jones and Beth Gibbons, and not without good reason. Zahra's uniquely atmospheric songs can be approached from the perspective of pop, jazz and blues just as they can from the direction of Moroccan gnawa, desert blues or flamenco. The songs on her second album, Homeland, released in 2015, were created in Marrakesh. Although the closeness to her roots is palpable, this "homeland” can also be considered to be Zahra's own universe, in which magic, mystery and sensuality transcend borders of genre and geography.
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