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Malika Zarra, the Glossary

Malika Zarra is a Moroccan singer, composer, and music producer, based in New York City.^[1]

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American people of Moroccan-Berber descent
Moroccan emigrants to the United States
Moroccan musicians
Moroccan women musicians

Acoustic guitar

An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family.

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Aftermath (Amy Lee soundtrack)

Aftermath is the soundtrack album for Mark Jackson's drama film War Story.

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All About Jazz

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995.

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American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Amy Lee

Amy Lynn Lee (born December 13, 1981) is an American singer-songwriter and musician.

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The Apollo Theater (formerly the Hurtig & Seamon's New Theatre; also Apollo Theatre or 125th Street Apollo Theatre) is a multi-use theater at 253 West 125th Street in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan in New York City.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Bendir

The bendir (بندير, bindīr;: بنادير, binādīr) is a wooden-framed frame drum of North Africa and Southwest Asia.

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Berber languages

The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.

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Berber music

Berber music refers to the musical traditions of the Berbers, a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migration to the Maghreb.

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Berbers

Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.

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Blue Note Jazz Club

The Blue Note Jazz Club is a jazz club and restaurant located at 131 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.

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Bobby McFerrin

Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. (born March 11, 1950) is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and conductor.

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Brooklyn Academy of Music

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a multi-arts center in Brooklyn, New York City.

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Cajón

A cajón ("box, crate, drawer") is a box-shaped percussion instrument originally from Peru, played by slapping the front or rear faces (generally thin plywood) with the hands, fingers, or sometimes implements such as brushes, mallets, or sticks.

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Carnegie Hall

Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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CD Baby

CD Baby, Inc. is a Portland, Oregon based online distributor of independent music.

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Chaabi (Morocco)

Chaabi (lit. "popular") refers to several types of popular music of Morocco, combining rural and urban folk music.

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Cité de la Musique

The Cité de la Musique ("City of Music"), also known as Philharmonie 2, is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the Parc de la Villette, 19th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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David Gilmore

David Gilmore (born 5 February 1964) is an American jazz guitarist.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Karl Egger, Manfred Eicher and Manfred Scheffner in Munich in 1969.

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Ella Fitzgerald

Ella Jane Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917June 15, 1996) was an American jazz singer, sometimes referred to as the "First Lady of Song", "Queen of Jazz", and "Lady Ella".

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Faithful (Marcin Wasilewski album)

Faithful is an album by Polish jazz pianist and composer Marcin Wasilewski recorded in 2010 and released on the ECM label.

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Farid al-Atrash

Farid al-Atrash (فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974), also spelled Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian singer, oudist, composer, and actor.

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Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal

Festival du Monde Arabe de Montréal also known as Festival du Monde Arabe (FMA) (in English Arab World Festival of Montreal, in Arabic مهرجان العالمالعربي في مونتريال) is a major annual cultural festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada dedicated to the arts of the Arab World.

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Francis Jacob

Francis Jacob (born 4 July 1972) is a French organist and harpsichordist.

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French language in Morocco

French is one of the languages spoken in Morocco.

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French popular music

French popular music is a music of France belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and mostly distributed commercially.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African-American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African-Americans in the mid-20th century.

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Gnawa music

Gnawa music (Ar. ڭْناوة or كْناوة) is a body of Moroccan religious songs and rhythms.

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Goblet drum

The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, darabuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali; دربوكة / Romanized) is a single-head membranophone with a goblet-shaped body.

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Gong

A gongFrom Indonesian and gong; ꦒꦺꦴꦁ gong; p; どら|dora; គង kong; ฆ้อง khong; cồng chiêng; কাঁহ kãh is a percussion instrument originating in East Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Gretchen Parlato

Gretchen Parlato (born February 11, 1976) is an American jazz singer.

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Haja El Hamdaouia

Haja El Hamdaouia (الحاجة الحمداوية; 28 October 1930 – 5 April 2021) was a Moroccan singer and songwriter, known for singing Moroccan Chaabi and Aita.

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High Atlas

The High Atlas, also called the Grand Atlas, is a mountain range in central Morocco, North Africa, the highest part of the Atlas Mountains.

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House music

House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute.

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Jacques Schwarz-Bart

Jacques Schwarz-Bart (born 22 December 1962 in Les Abymes) is a French jazz saxophonist. Malika Zarra and Jacques Schwarz-Bart are Motéma Music artists.

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Jasser Haj Youssef

Jasser Haj Youssef (born 18 June 1980 in Sousse) is a Tunisian violinist and, viola d'amore player, musicologist and composer who works in Oriental music, contemporary music, and jazz.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jazz Standard (jazz club)

Jazz Standard was a jazz club located at 116 East 27th Street in the Rose Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Jersey City, New Jersey

Jersey City is the second-most populous, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

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Joe's Pub

Joe's Pub, one of the six performance spaces within The Public Theater, is a music venue and restaurant that hosts live performances across genres and arts, ranging from cabaret to modern dance to world music.

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John Zorn

John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conductor, saxophonist, arranger and producer who "deliberately resists category".

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La Mar Enfortuna (band)

La Mar Enfortuna is the Sephardic side project from the alt rock group Elysian Fields, Oren Bloedow and Jennifer Charles.

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London Jazz Festival

The London Jazz Festival is a music festival held every November.

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Lonnie Plaxico

Lonnie Plaxico (born September 4, 1960) is an American jazz double bassist.

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Makoto Ozone

is a Japanese jazz pianist.

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Marcin Wasilewski (pianist)

Marcin Wasilewski (born 1975 in Slawno, Zachodniopomorskie) is a Polish pianist and composer.

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Marseille

Marseille or Marseilles (Marseille; Marselha; see below) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

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Michael Cain

Michael Cain (born April 2, 1966) is a pianist and composer.

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Montreal International Jazz Festival

The Montreal International Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Moroccan Arabic

Moroccan Arabic (translit), also known as Darija (الدارجة or الداريجة), is the dialectal, vernacular form or forms of Arabic spoken in Morocco.

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Motéma Music

Motéma Music is a jazz and world music record label in the United States.

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Music of Africa

Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.

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Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13

Mycale: Book of Angels Volume 13 is an album by the vocal group Mycale performing compositions from John Zorn's second Masada book, "The Book of Angels".

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Nova Express (album)

Nova Express is an album composed by John Zorn, inspired by William Burroughs prose.

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Oud

The oud (translit) is a Middle Eastern short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped, fretless stringed instrument (a chordophone in the Hornbostel–Sachs classification of instruments), usually with 11 strings grouped in six courses, but some models have five or seven courses, with 10 or 13 strings respectively.

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Oulad Teima

Oulad Teima also known as Houara (أولاد تايمة) is a city in Taroudant Province, Souss-Massa, Morocco.

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Rhodes piano

The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s.

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Sara Tavares

Sara Alexandra Lima Tavares (1 February 1978 – 19 November 2023) was a Portuguese singer, composer, guitarist and percussionist.

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Stevie Wonder

Stevland Hardaway Morris (Judkins; born May 13, 1950), known professionally as Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer.

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Tata, Morocco

Tata (طاطا, ⵟⴰⵟⴰ) is a city in central Morocco with a population of 18.611 according to the country's 2014 census.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Tommy Campbell (musician)

Thomas W. Campbell (born February 14, 1957, Norristown, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz drummer.

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Tours

Tours (meaning Towers) is the largest city in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France.

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Umm Kulthum

Umm Kulthum (4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title ("Star of the Orient"). Immensely popular throughout the Arab World, Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid".

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malika_Zarra

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See also

American people of Moroccan-Berber descent

Moroccan emigrants to the United States

Moroccan musicians

Moroccan women musicians

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