2023-11-17 08:23:01
On the bill at the Les Créatives festival which runs until November 26 in Geneva, Badiâa Bouhrizi is a pioneer of electronic music in Tunisia. A human rights activist, her protest songs have become anthems of the Tunisian revolution.
With a soundscape between traditional African and Arabic music and a voice carrying poems in favor of social justice, plurality and democracy, Tunisian singer Badiâa Bouhrizi, also known under the stage name Neysatu, is an activist artist . His words in favor of political resistance to the regime have earned him several bans from performing in his country.
Born in Tunisia in 1980, the young woman began music as a soloist in local choirs before discovering new musical worlds as a teenager. Badiâa Bouhrizi began singing in several rock groups, learned guitar and composition, then introduced herself to electronic music, of which she would become one of the pioneers in Tunisia. But pursuing her career in her country becomes too complicated and she therefore decides to settle in Paris.
In 2011, she won the prize for best alternative Arabic song with “Ila Salma”, dedicated to the Palestinian poet Salma Khadra Jayyusi. His solo career is launched.
>> Listen to “Ila Salma” by Badiâa Bouhrizi
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Musical retrospective
Her album “KahruMusiqa”, released in 2023 and which she will defend on November 26 in Geneva as part of the Les Créatives festival, brings together more than ten years of music produced in London, Tunis and Paris. “This project is almost like a trance (…). It is an intimate universe where being a woman is felt and heard, without venturing into feminist discourses,” specifies the queer singer on the site Magh Space.
There we find her first songs recorded at home with cheap microphones, as well as emblematic songs like “Ila Salma” or “Labess”. Twelve tracks sung in Arabic which fuse different musical styles ranging from jazz to reggae, funk and electronics.
Radio subject: Yves Zahno
Web adaptation: Andréanne Quartier-la-Tente
Badiâa Bouhrizi and Camilla Sparksss plays Lullabies in concert at the Alhambra, Geneva, as part of the Les Créatives festival, November 26, 2023.
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