Zap Mama

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Zap Mama
Zap Mama Visits Merchant in Mali.
Background information
Birth name	Marie Daulne
Also known as	Zap Marie
Origin	Belgium
Genres	World music Afro-Pop Afro fusion
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Crammed Discs Luaka Bop Heads Up International Virgin EMI Records Concord Music Group
Members	Marie Daulne
Past members	Tanja Daese, Lene Norgaard Christensen, Sabine Kabongo, Celine T'hooft, Sylvie Nawasadio, Anita Daulne, Ida Kristine Nielsen
Website	www.zapmama.com

Zap Mama is a Belgian singer-songwriter, performer, composer, lyricist, activist, video artist and ethno-vocal therapist born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, raised in Belgium. Zap Mama sings polyphonic and afro-pop music, a harmonic music with a mixture of infused African vocal techniques, urban, hip hop with emphasis on voice.^[1] In order to explore and discover the vast world of oral tradition music, she travels throughout Africa, learning, exchanging and sharing information about healing songs, lullabies, mourning, and practising polyphony with griots (bards), Tartit tuareg women, Dogons, Peulhs, Pygmies, Mangbetus, Zulus and others.

Zap Mama's worldwide success began with a quintet of polyphonic female singers, whose unique vocal polyphony style has inspired influences in American hip hop, nu-soul, jazz and elements of pop. Her song "Iko-iko" was featured in the film Mission: Impossible II.