Salem Tradition is Christine Salem surrounded by a singer and two percussionists playing rouler, kayanm, doundoum and djembe. Christine Salem chants with a voice almost raucous but utterly bewitched, an inspired maloya rooted in the Afro-Madagascan and Indian Ocean heritage...
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Salem Tradition is Christine Salem surrounded by a singer and two percussionists playing rouler, kayanm, doundoum and djembe. Christine Salem chants with a voice almost raucous but utterly bewitched, an inspired maloya rooted in the Afro-Madagascan and Indian Ocean heritage...
Christine Salem is rapidly becoming a major Reunion Island artist. She carries the maloya with her, music reserved for men until just a few years ago, improving on it, her deep voice joining the percussion's hypnotic balads. The singer's work is bringing new life to this Reunion Island tradition.