- country:France
- region:Île de France
- style(s):Folk, Pop
- label:Que du bonheur en son
- type:Quartet
- gender:female
- instrumentation:jazz combo
- artist contact:Groove 360 Academy
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Kandy Guira is one of the few female voices that Burkina Faso has revealed.
Music, it fell into it from a very young age. Born in Côte d'Ivoire, she grew up in the great Abidjanese bath where all music and cultures meet and hybridize. Following her parents in Burkina Faso, she made her classes in the local cabarets, and her debut with the Kalianga group, then alongside Abdoulaye Cissé, one of the great names
in Burkinabe music. Model, actress, dancer she opened herself to other experiences but her first pulsation is
music!
To the great displeasure of her mother, a believer and traditionalist, who hardly sees the life of an artist in a positive light. Emancipation is indeed at stake in Kandy's career, as in his songs that reflect it.
The woman who soon became a chorister for the great names of the West African scene is of this generation, daughter of Thomas Sankara, who pronounced the abandonment of certain traditions and denounced the exploitation of women. For the freedoms she has taken, she dedicates her first album M'ba (the mother) to the one who had not understood her until then.
In 2008, she received the first prize of the National Week of Culture, one of the highlights of Burkinabe music.
KANDY GUIRA, THE AMAZON OF BURKINA FASO
Since then, she has lived in France and had the chance to collaborate with the big names on the Afro scene, from MANU DIBANGO to CHEICK TIDIANE SECK, from ESPERANZA SPALDING to OUMOU SANGARÉ whom she still accompanies today and who supports her project.
Today, enriched by her experiences, she takes the reins of her solo career. His EP Tek-La- Runda which means "I take the reins is the story of a beautiful meeting with Clément, DJ and producer of Magic Power for the project.
A solar and intense artist, she creates a luminous and telluric music, a mix of afro pop and spicy folk, supported by electric arrangements and inspired by Clément DJ
| LINE-UP FROM FRANCE:
4 musicians
5 peoples on the road