Maïa Barouh

Aïda

A free-spirited Franco-Japanese singer, flautist, songwriter and arranger. Maïa's musical universe is unique. She mixes traditional Japanese singing (which she calls "Nippon blues") with electro, pop and rap on lyrics written in French and Japanese. One of her particularities is her great vocal technique - largely unknown to the general public and coming from an island in the south of Japan - which she combines with her percussive and insolent transverse flute. Her modernity comes from her ability to blend her ancestral musical heritages with contemporary sounds, marrying her two cultures with the energy of a punk shaman!

Cradled by music in the wake of her father Pierre Barouh, Maïa began playing instruments at an early age, but the flute was her first weapon in the trade. She began her career at the age of 16 in the Tokyo underground, playing with groups of all kinds, including street bands, drag-queens and striptease dancers, before setting up her own group based on electric bass and percussion, where her vocals became central to a series of concerts and tours throughout the archipelago. After an 11-year career in Japan, she met and collaborated with renowned producer Martin Meissonnier, who brought her to Paris to produce the album "Kodama", which she toured throughout Europe for 5 years, before preparing her brand-new project "AIDA": an album evoking her Franco-Japanese identity through lyrics and sound.

With her vast stage experience, her madness, her volcanic energy and her boundless musicality, Maïa Barouh takes us to the heart of her roots, where melancholy and trance, percussion and electronic music, rap and ancestral chants rub shoulders, and captures the audience with her voice that takes you by the gut.