Fougue and tenacity are the first words that come to mind when listening to Maya Kamaty's limpid, inhabited voice.
In 2014, she set the scene for her new album, a bridge between the Maloya of her beloved island and modern pop, between the desire to nurture her roots and bathe them in contemporary sounds. She is the embodiment of a fifth-generation crossbreeding.
With the album Sovaz, released in February 2024, her music veers sharply towards urban culture. She takes a tangent, doesn't round off the angles, composes syncopated music, sings lyrics of deep rage that she expels in a breath proper to the urgency of the street. Sovaz evokes the raw, unpolished, even insolent, transgressive attitude of the streets.
