Mahoraise music is the music of the island of

Mayotte Mayotte (; french: Mayotte, ; Shimaore: ''Maore'', ; Kibushi: ''Maori'', ), officially the Department of Mayotte (french: Département de Mayotte), is an overseas department and region and single territorial collectivity of France. It is loc ...

, a French island located in the

Mozambique Channel The Mozambique Channel (french: Canal du Mozambique, mg, Lakandranon'i Mozambika, pt, Canal de Moçambique) is an arm of the Indian Ocean located between the Southeast African countries of Madagascar and Mozambique. The channel is about long ...

of the

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. The principal

musical genres This is a list of music genres and styles. Music can be described in terms of many genres and styles. Classifications are often arbitrary, and may be disputed and closely related forms often overlap. Larger genres and styles comprise more specifi ...

which encompass Mahoraise are Mgodro,

Blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

Traditional music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has b ...

, Gaboussi, and Chakacha

Mahorais groups and singers

Groups

* Alpha Djo * Les Rapaces

Singers

* M'toro Chamou * Mikidache * Baco * Rekman Seller *

Saandati Moussa Saandati Moussa is a Mahorese singer-songwriter. Biography Saandati Moussa was born in Mamoudzou on the island of Grande-Terre, in Mayotte, to Mayotte parents. Saandati Moussa started singing at the age of 15 with the debaa. She joined Tsar ...

* Zily * Jean-Raymond Cudza * Boura Mahiya * Zama Colo * Del Zid * Mado * Baco Ali * Lima Wild * Komo * Bob Mursala * Bo Houss * Terrel Elymoor * Langa * Vélou Moirabou * Babadi * Edmond Bébé * Anfane Lewis *

Lady Lova Lady Lova, known as ''Le Diamant noir'' (the Black Diamond), is a French singer of dancehall and hip hop. Career Born in Bandraboua in Mayotte, Lady Lova was raised in Réunion. She began her career in the French Indian Ocean territories, whe ...

Music Body Report

* Colo Mangara * Mariame Kanlangaga *Riziki Mtsounga * Jeff Ridjali * Henry Said Henry

Spiritual Worlds

* Maoulida * Dahira * Shigoma * Madjilisse * Manzaraka

References

{{Reflist Culture of Mayotte Music of French subdivisions