Club Jaliya is a unique experience with new musical encounters at every opportunity! The name "Jaliya" represents a long-standing West African tradition where a Jali is both entertainer and storyteller - but also an artist with a message, community involvement and drive to change and influence. Through musical meetings, new expressions are explored and together with the guests, the club's hosts Sousou and Maher Cissoko find out how the Jali tradition can develop and live on. For the autumn evenings, Sousou and Maher have invited artists from different genres and with different expressions that they think represent different parts of the Jali culture to see what fusions occur when they meet on stage.
KRISTIN AMPARO
Kristin Amparo is a composer and record company director for Amparo Productions - but above all one of Sweden's most beloved singers who has won great recognition for her unstoppable and seemingly unlimited artistry. Kristin has been described as Ella Fitzgerald, Adele and Amy Winehouse in one and the same person and moves freely between genres. Kristin is a frequently hired jazz singer and her most played song on Spotify with over 60 million streams is the vocal performance on Albin Johnsén's "Din Soldat".
"From Colombia's highest mountains to Sweden's deepest forests, the music that has grown inside me and made its way all the way out through my fingers to my guitar. The texts I have written are in Swedish about longing for my father, my roots and my identity. Spanish lyrics about peace and freedom and English lyrics about hope and faith.”
Kristin's social commitment is of course reflected in her music. Human rights, especially children's rights, is what drives her and she has been an ambassador for Bris, collaborated with SOS children's villages and this year she has recently started a collaboration with Rädda Barnen. Kristin Amparo is one of the founders of the FATTA movement, which together with Ida Östensson and Make Equal pushed through the consent law.
SOUSOU & MAHER CISSOKO
Sousou & Maher Cissoko are a renowned performing and songwriter duo who tour the world and have played in over 30 countries at everything from major festivals and concert halls to small intimate clubs. Both grew up in musical families, and it was the interest and love for the West African instrument kora that brought them together. Maher comes from a famous family of kora players in Senegal with a long tradition of being Jalis. Sousou is one of the world's few female musicians who play the kora. In their music, magnificent choral playing and expressive vocals are combined with a rhythmic energy and influences from, among other things, reggae, folk, soul and mbalax.
Both Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio have made documentaries about Sousou and Maher, and when Youssou N ́Dour received the Polar Prize in 2013, together with Timbuktu, they sang two of Youssou N ́Dour's songs and moved him to tears. In 2017 they toured with LALEH and the Swedish people could follow them in the SVT series "Folkets musik" where famous Swedish hit songs were interpreted by musicians with roots in other countries.
The event is carried out with support from Musik i Syd and Lund Municipality.