Deba

• country:Mayotte
• style(s):Sufi, Traditional
• label:Ocora
• type:Band
• gender:female
• instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
• artist contact:Zaman Production

Links

• video at the World Sacred Music Festival in Fès in june 2009

The songs and dances deba, practiced exclusively by women and girls, evoke the great Sufi ceremonies celebrating the birth of the Prophet. Dressed in white holding traditional, trimmed their finery, they perform their choreography swinging remembering in a long ripple the sinuous curves, the movement of waves of the ocean.