MALAVOI - Matebis LP French Import Rare Edith Lafel Jocelyne Beroard Zouk Compas
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MALAVOI - Matebis LP French Import Rare Edith Lafel Jocelyne Beroard Zouk
A1 Edith Lefel– La Siren' A2 Tanya Saint-Val– La Gwadeloupeen A3 Philippe Lavil– Fort De France A4 Marcé– Patshipa A5 Francisco (2)– Karolin A6 Jocelyne Beroard– Concerto Pour La Fleur Et L'Oiseau B1 Ralph Thamar– Exil B2 Beethova Obas– Nou Pa Moun B3 Pipo Gertrude– Lantou La Le B4 Kali (4)– Me Ki Sa Ou Le B5 Paul Rosine– Je Suis En Paix Avec Le Monde B6 Sam Alpha– Mama
Malavoi was a Martinican band consisting of Mano Césaire, Jean-Paul Soïme, Christian de Negri, Denis Dantin, and Marcel Rémion. They formed in 1972, naming themselves after a kind of sugarcane and a street on Gorée, a Senegalese island. Many of the members were part of the Merry Lads, a band from the Lycée Schoelcher, and many had been students at Colette Franz, a music school.
Malavoi's style mixes French Antillean music with modern influences from across the Americas, especially Caribbean and Brazilian music, as well as jazz. Their early popular singles included "Albé" and "En lè mon là". The band was soon expanded to include saxophonist Bib Monville and pianist Paulo Rosine, who became the band's leader. The singers alternated and included Raymond Mazarin, Pierre Jabert, Maurice Marie-Louise, Pierre Pastel and Julien Constance.
Malavoi's first album was Malavoi, released in 1978 and featuring singer Ralph Thamar. The band broke up soon after, however, and didn't perform again until re-uniting under Rosine's leadership in 1981. Rosine greatly expanded the fiddle section, first to ten performers, then down to four with Philippe Porry taking over for Dantin, and also added Jean-José Lagier on cello. Malavoi's fame soon spread across the Caribbean and abroad with the 1983 album Zouel, featuring Thamar on vocals along with Marie-José Alie. They played at the Printemps de Bourges in 1983 and at the Caribbean festival in Cartagena, and won the Caribbean music prize, the Maracas d'Or, as well as scoring the film Rue Case Nègres (fr).
They continued touring widely into the late 1980s, in the United States, France, Japan, Russia, Brazil, Canada and Ecuador. Thamar was replaced by Pipo Gertrude in 1988. In the early 1990s, the band's popularity continued to grow, and the membership expanded with the addition of singer Tony Chasseur. Their 1992 Matebis included collaborations with numerous Caribbean musicians, including Jocelyne Béroard, Beethova Obas, Kali, Edith Lefel, Tanya Saint-Val and Philippe Lavil.
Malavoi's leader, Paulo Rosine, died in 1993. He was replaced by José Privat, while two French violinists, Jean-Luc Pino and Daniel Dato, also joined; the band's leader became Jean-Paul Soïme.
Edith Lefel (17 November 1963, in Cayenne, French Guiana - 20 January 2003, in Dreux, France) was a French singer.
Jocelyne Béroard (born 12 September 1954) is a Martinicansinger and songwriter. She is one of the lead singers of the Zouk and Compas band Kassav'. As a solo artist, she helped create zouk Beton, a music genre originated by the seminal Martinican Creole band Kassav' from Paris, the main members of which are from Guadeloupe and Martinique.
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