Daba Makourejah

Daba AKA Daba Makourejah is a young artist born in Senegal. Hip-hop dancer and actress during her teenage years, DABA embraced music when she was 17 years old and learned to play the guitar on her own. Very quickly, she composed her first songs and showed an innate talent of "Song-writer", with an exacerbated sensitivity. Over the years, Daba discovered her vocal lead, crossing styles and projects while traveling the world. In Paris, the eclectic music lover continues her artistic research. She mixes various influences between Reggae, Jazz and Hip-hop, while her pen is refined by delivering deep lyrics and carrying spirituality and commitment. In 2010, she meets the collective "Blackboard Jungle" who invites her on a compilation that will bear the title of her song Musical Raid. This compilation made her discover the European Reggae Dub public. It will also be the beginning of a collaboration with the group the Rockers Disciples. It will result in an album entitled "Far Eye" released in 2012, nominated for the victories of Reggae music 2013, alongside big names in Jamaican music. The same year, she will offer the independent label a song called "Bamba" which will be widely distributed throughout Europe, Mexico through Japan under the name of Daba Makourejah. She was then contacted by various independent labels wishing to collaborate with her. Today Daba Makourejah has 8 vinyl releases, 1 compilation cd and an album released on cd, vinyl and download. Today, Daba Makourejah becomes DABA all short. after years of collaboration, she works today a repertoire made of compositions and will release "Nawet" her first personal EP in June 2016. This project intends to present the artist in a more intimate light, closer to an artistic personality still in the making. Here, even if the spiritual energy of reggae remains, the big bass is eclipsed while Manding blues and resolutely jazzy influences assert themselves. Today she presents her new songs in a trio. Her compositions, sung in English, Wolof and French, oscillate between African melodies, soulful singing and rap. Daba is a musician who has many strings to her art.