Even more than its pedigree, the core virtue of Brooklyn’s Antibalas is that they’re a true multi-culti band that’s managed to escape the dilution of fusion. Instead of the well-intentioned but often ...

"Afropean" singer Marie Daulne is Zap Mama. Her parents are from the Congo and Belgium; Daulne was born in the Congo and grew up in Brussels. She formed the group as an a cappella quintet in the late ...

Saturday, Jan. 24 will see the union of two musical acts in celebration of Afrobeat music at the main stage of the South Miami-Dade Cultural Arts Center. Zap Mama and Antibalas will come together as ...

Cultural music is what you get with Congolese-born Marie Daulne, best known as the founder and frontwoman of Zap Mama. The band’s music draws from various influences without sticking to a single genre ...

The music of Zap Mama was once known for bringing pure, a capella sounds from Africa. But its latest CD, Ancestry in Progress, continues a move toward a global vision of soul. That evolution was ...

SHE’S FEARLESS. Like all great artists, vocalist Marie Daulne (aka Zap Mama, also the name of her a cappella vocal ensemble) isn’t afraid to challenge her art, to place it in different contexts and ...

There was a time when Belgium's premier a cappella group could have been the next Spice Girls. They had been nominated for a Grammy for their debut album Adventures in Afropea' in 1993, and the world ...

A new tour and first performance pairing the Congo-born, Afro-pop vocalist Zap Mama with the Afrobeat group Antibalas marks the debut of a de facto worldbeat supergroup. The first-time collaboration ...

The Zaire-born, Belgium-raised Marie Daulne formed Zap Mama, an all-female a cappella group, 17 years ago. With a unique vocal fusion of African, soul, pop and jazz, the ensemble members became ...

The McDonalds McCafe Mocha Superlounge has some very comfortable leather chairs in it, but no one could stay seated for long during Zap Mama's closeout set. The Belgian Afrobeat group kept up an ...

Zap Mama Zap Mama, the multicultural musical entity led by Afropean vocalist and songwriter Marie Daulne, will release their first new album in two years, ReCreation, on May 26, 2009. In addition to a ...

Originally an Afro-European vocal project based in Brussels, Zap Mama has over the past decade-and-a-half become the sole property of Zaire-to-Belgium transplant Marie Daulne, who formed the group ...