Malika Zarra

Thu, May 22

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DOORS 6PM | SHOW 7PM - 8PM DOORS 8:30PM | SHOW 8:45PM - 9:45PM $75 seats pre-pay the cover and a $55 credit for any items on the dinner menu. $40 seats pre-pay the cover and a $20 credit toward your bill. (18% gratuity and online service charge added at checkout under "fees”) Award-winning singer/composer/producer, MALIKA ZARRA is a multi-cultural shape-shifter, an enchantress who leaps effortlessly between seemingly unconnected languages and traditions, uniting them while utilizing each to further enrich the others. The exotically beautiful artist with the velvety, sinuous mezzo-soprano voice has demonstrated a rare ability to communicate both powerful and subtle ideas and feelings in Berber, Moroccan Arabic, French and English now a much-in-demand headliner at concert halls and festivals the world over. An inspiring new international voice, who is both influenced by jazz and is bringing her own culture and creativity to the melting pot, is MALIKA ZARRA. Born in Morocco, raised in France, lived ten years in New York City and four years in Morocco. This gifted composer, producer and singer has invented a new Moroccan urban-world-jazz by tastefully using traditional North African chaâbi, Berber and Gnawa polyrhythms to underpin her distinctly contemporary urban compositions, all the while maintaining a sophisticated improvisational modern jazz approach. "“Malika Zarra’s music traverses her Moroccan heritage as well as her cosmopolitan life as a musician in Paris and New York. She brings a personal vision that crosses musical borders with talent and charisma.” — Bill Bragin, The Arts Center at NYU Abu Dhabi “Morocco's Jazz Jewel. Singing in Berber, Moroccan Arabic, English and French [Malika Zarra] is redefining the term fusion and adding her unique sound to the world” - CNN International “African Voices” ​ ""Throughout the evening, the cadences of Arabic and Berber dialects sat easily within the sophisticated arrangements, as did the modalities of the melodies. By the end of her set, the audience was thoroughly entranced."" - Michael Shapiro, Huffington Post ​ ""Blending the warmth of American soul music with tricky North African rhythms, intricately yet tersely arranged, jazz-inflected melodies and lyrics in Berber, Arabic, French and English, Zarra has carved out a niche for herself which manages to be completely unique yet very accessible."" - Ludic Culture “Through the beauty of her voice and the magic of her compositions Malika Zarra reminds us of the musical diversity of our ancestral homeland, Africa. Close your eyes and listen.” - Randy Weston ​ “Zarra’s timing is sharp, her command irrefutable and her instincts, among them the knowledge of when to lie back, the mark of a leader."" - Jeff Tamarkin, Jazz Times ​ ""Zarra crosses musical, cultural, and linguistic boundaries with ease, creating a delicious sound centered in but not bounded by her ethnicity."" - Soundroots ​ ""Boldly experimental, bringing in Berber chanting, dark North African harmonies, and a wholly original sensibility."" - Afropop Worldwide Hailed by The New Yorker as “an enchanting pioneer of Maghreb jazz,” and by CNN International for “redefining the term fusion and adding her unique sound to the world,”"