musique

1-Moroccan music is owning YouTube right now

Open YouTube’s music trends in Morocco right now and something becomes obvious pretty quickly: Moroccan artists aren’t fighting for a tiny corner of the chart. They are the chart. One of the names driving that momentum is Draganov, particularly through hi

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2-Rabat has plans tonight: IBRAHIM MAALOUF takes the stage

There are worse ways to spend a Tuesday night than listening to Ibrahim Maalouf fill the Théâtre Royal de Rabat with trumpets. The French-Lebanese musician performs in Rabat tonight, September 22, bringing his distinctive mix of jazz, Arabic music, rock,

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3-L’Boulevard has found its next generation

The speakers have gone quiet at L’Boulevard, but three names are leaving the festival louder than they arrived. Shinohidden, Metrotune and Lixivia are the winners of this year’s Tremplin L’Boulevard, the long-running competition designed to give emerging

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4-KAWTAR is entering a new era with « B&N »

If you have been keeping an eye on Morocco’s next generation of pop artists, Kawtar Oudghiri has another song for your playlist. The young Moroccan singer released her latest single, “B&N,” on September 25, continuing a year in which she has been stea

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5-Moroccan electronic music wants to become a real industry

Morocco already knows how to throw a good electronic music festival. The bigger question now is: what happens when the festival ends? That was one of the conversations happening around the Essaouira Dance Summit, which brought together DJs, labels, promot

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6-Faouzia hit 100 Million streams and the internet helped her get there

Faouzia just crossed a pretty major milestone. The Moroccan-Canadian singer has now passed 100 million Spotify streams with “Unethical,” proving once again that songs do not always need to explode the second they drop. Sometimes, the internet decides they

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7-Paris is giving Moroccan music an entire Week-end

Moroccan music isn’t getting one night in Paris. It’s getting three days. From October 29 to 31, the Philharmonie de Paris is dedicating an entire programme to Morocco, bringing different corners of the country’s musical heritage into one of France’s bigg

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8-OUM made an album with almost nothing but voices and percussion

Oum looked at the usual ingredients of an album and basically started removing them. No big string section. No wind instruments. No layers of production hiding behind the vocals. For “Dialddar,” the Moroccan singer built an entire project around something

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9-Rabat sold out the most expensive seats for Micheal Jackson tribute show

Rabat apparently really wants its Michael Jackson moment. “This Is Michael,” a live tribute show dedicated to the King of Pop, is coming to the Théâtre Royal de Rabat on October 29, and the most expensive ticket categories have already sold out. The show

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10-Malak is making music out of everything she’s been through

For our latest Late Night Tunes session, we invited rising Moroccan singer Malak to perform, talk about her music, and introduce us to the person behind the voice. And somewhere between childhood memories, heartbreak and big dreams, we discovered an artis

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