Christine Salem, Maloya without borders

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Portrait of singer Christine Salem.

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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow

51 min

Reunionese singer Christine Salem returns with “Mersi”, a seventh album that mixes blues with Maloya, tradition with the future.

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When we talk about 

Christine Salem

, we first think of her voice.

A warm and powerful voice whose intensity rises a capella.

And then, there are his words which resonate with suffering but not resignation, which proclaim revolt but not revenge, which elevate peace and spirituality.

There are the percussions inherited from the slaves of Reunion Island, which unite with the riffs of a guitar, the sobs of a violin or the whistles of a harmonica, the time of 13 mixed pieces in which the maloya is tinged with blues, rock, country or sega.

And then on the cover of her new album, there is her gaze, both soft and determined, her hairstyle à la Angela Davis and her blue or rather blues lips.

"Mersi", the 7th album by Reunionese singer Christine Salem has just been released.

On the menu of this Café Gourmand:

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Muriel Maalouf

opens the doors of a place rarely open to the public.

The CNAP, National Center for Plastic Arts, is currently located in La Défense to the west of Paris.

He is in the process of moving east to Pantin.

Today it holds nearly 105,000 works of art.

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Fanny Bleichner

plunges us into a tale of horror, acid rain, lands irradiated by a nuclear catastrophe with “The yellow stone”, a novel by Geoffrey Le Guilcher and published by the gout d'or editions. 

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Amélie Beaucour

 tells the story of broken hearts two days before Valentine's Day through the pages of “Et mon cœur se serra”, published by Flammarion.

A book between drawings, diary and poetry, signed Antoine Laurain and Le Sonneur.

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Alain Pilot

met Charlotte Fever formed by Cassandra and Alexandre.

They present today their second mini-album, “Erotico” accompanied by an erotic booklet. 

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