1. A MAGICAL CONCERT EXPERIENCE WITH A MISSION
TO END ILLEGAL LOGGING IN MADAGASCAR
WAKE UP
MADAGASCAR
F E A T U R I N G
JAOJOBY RAZIA SARAMBA CHARLES KELY
Singer, songwriter and environmental activist Razia Said spent her childhood in the vanilla-growing region of
Madagascar’s northeast coast. After years of living abroad, she returned to discover her country’s landscape ravaged by
illegal logging, slash and burn agriculture and the impact of climate change.
In an effort to raise awareness at the local and international level, Razia organized the Mifohaza Masoala (Wake Up
Masoala) music/environmental festival, which took place at the edge of the Masoala Rainforest in October 2011.
Before the concert local inhabitants planted a total of 20,000 trees.
The concert featured some of Madagascar’s most exciting performers, and the festival was a huge success.
The participants agreed that the next step was to take the music and the message to the world.
The Wake Up Madagascar tour will showcase the same outstanding musicians and dancers who create an uplifting
celebration of salegy music. The music that makes Madagascar dance with its heart pounding rhythms, rippling guitars,
lush vocal harmonies, bouncy accordion and hip-shaking dance moves, salegy represents the soul and spirit of theisland.
The featured artists will be supported by an all-star lineup that will total 9 musicians on stage.
Never-before has the amazing music and dance of Madagascar been presented to the world with a concert event this
ambitious...and this imperative.
Wake Up Madagascar is touring North America in July 2012 and again in Spring 2013.
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Stop Illegal Logging. Learn more at www.raziasaid.com
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2. WA K E U P M A DA G A S C A R F E AT U R E D A RT I S T S
JAOJOBY
Eusèbe Jaojoby is the most popular singer in Madagascar and throughout the Indian
Ocean islands. He is one of the founders and the most brilliant interpreter of the
style that symbolizes the “Red Island”: salegy. The “King of Salegy” is the nickname
given to Jaojoby by his fellow countrymen, demonstrating his important role Mada-
gascar’s most prevalent music style. Born in a village on the northeastern coast of
Madagascar, Jaojoby and his 12 brothers and sistersgrew up singing Catholic hymns
in church choirs and traditional folk songs atvillage festivals, celebrations and com-
munity events. As a teenager, Jaojoby began performing professionally, blending
elements of Malagasy roots music with Western influences, especially electric guitars
and drums. While his musical career was sidetracked in the 1980s, he was convinced
to participate in a French recording of salegy songs, which led to a hit single and the
rejuvenation of Jaojoby’s prominence in the local music scene. Since releasing the
first of seven solo albums in 1992, Jaojoby’s local and international following has
continued to grow. He is Madgascar’s most beloved performer and recording artist.
RAZIA
Singer and songwriter Razia Said’s nomadic life has taken her across Africa to France,
Italy, Ibiza, Bali and New York City, but despite these wanderings, her heart and soul
remains inexorably tethered to Madagascar, the land of her birth. Over the years
Razia experimented with chanson, rock, jazz and even R&B. But it took reaching back
to her cultural roots for Razia to uncover her true artistic calling as one of African
music’s most promising talents. Since the release of her breakthrough album Zebu
Nation in 2009,Razia has brought her message of environmental and cultural
preservation to enraptured audiences on stages worldwide.
CHARLES KELY
An author, composer, and a guitar virtuoso, Charles Kely grew up surrounded by
the ba gasy tradition of the highland plateaus in Madagascar. Kely’s style, which
he describes as “open gasy,” refers to the open tuning so characteristic of Mada-
gascar’s guitarists. He is now focusing on his solo career with the release of the CD
ZomaZoma which captures his innovative approach to Malagasy music, which
incorporates the open gasy style with a touch of bossa, jazz, blues, funk and subtle
pan-African influences.
SARAMBA
Claudine Robert Zafinera (also known as Dina) embodies a combination of the
south and north of Madagascar. Her father is originally from the south west and
her mother from the northeast; her own unique style of salegy combines her culture
with infectious grooves. Dina married Jaojoby in 1988 and has been singing along
with him ever since. In 2008 she created her own band: Saramba, formed mainly
by women. The music of Saramba is based on Malagasy traditional music, the very
characteristic powerful voice of Dina accentuate her lyrics about the urgent call for
the Malagasy people to pay attention to women’s issues.