Plein Air Concert: Maya Kamaty

As part of our Plein Air Series, we are very proud to welcome Maya Kamaty for a concert full of rythms and energy. Come and relax for a balmy summer evening in our courtyard, lulled by her melodies.

Doors open at 6:00 p.m.

About Maya Kamaty

Maya Kamaty is one of the new generation expanding the horizons of La Réunion’s traditional song form, maloya. Born out of the oppression of enslaved African and Malagasy peoples brought to work the island’s sugar plantations, it became a defiant symbol of identity and was thus banned by the authorities until 1981. Maya Kamaty’s father, Gilbert Pounia, was one of the spearhead artists in the music’s liberation with his band Ziskakan, into whose ranks Maya was enlisted at an early age as a backing singer. Putting music aside as a teenager, she rediscovered the importance of her Creole roots while a student in France, returning to the island to form her own band and write the songs for her impressive debut album, Santié Papang, successfully combining maloya rhythms with acoustic instruments and global electronic influences.

Maya Kamaty toured from Canada to Europe and opened the prestigious Vieilles Charrues festival in July 2021.

Her latest EP, “Sovaz”, is the expression of a woman who assumes herself as such. For this new opus, which she defines as “Kreol Urban pop”, Maya Kamaty collaborates with artist, composer, beatmaker Sskyron and guitarist Adrien Pigeat (arrangements), in a minimalist formula, at the cutting edge of current urban creation, with refined forays into hip hop, trap and atmospheric pop, she offers a repertoire of formidable effectiveness and rare depth.