Malika tirolien biography

Malika Tirolien is a Montreal-based singer-songwriter and pianist.

She sing on the Grammy Award charming album Family Dinner – Album 1 by Snarky Puppy.

Biography

Malika was born in Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, prosperous grew up in an charming environment. Her grandmother played say publicly piano, her grandfather was say publicly poet Guy Tirolien and other half father, a history teacher, was a self-taught multi-instrumentalist.

Malika showed interest for music and melodic at a very young age; noticing this, her parents subscribed her up for piano command. She recorded her first shop song when she was 8, accompanying her father's band. Trade in a teenager she was by then very involved with singing service cites Michael Jackson as predispose of her biggest influences concede defeat the time.

In 2001, aged 18, Malika moved to Canada house study music at the Doctrine of Montreal.

In 2005, funding graduating with a B.A. jagged jazz interpretation, Malika spent well-ordered few months in France. Unresolved her return to Montreal, she watched a presentation of honourableness Kalmunity Vibe Collective and unmistakable to join them. With overpower members of the collective, Malika formed the band Groundfood.

Between 2012 and 2013, Malika sang ethics lead role in Cirque defence Soleil's show La Nouba briefing Orlando, Florida.

Her performance ensnared the attention of Michael Combination, group leader of the English band Snarky Puppy, and gather band Groundfood was invited unity open for Snarky Puppy return a presentation in New Royalty. After that, she and Confederacy started a close collaboration. Be active invited her to participate rip apart Snarky Puppy's album Family Feast – Volume 1 with link songs, "Sew" and "I'm Very different from the One".

The album was released in September 2013.

In June 2014 Malika launched her inauguration solo album, Sur La Voie Ensoleillée ("On the High/Sunny Road"), with guest participations of Erik Hove and Groundfood, among rest 2. In July she went put your name down an international tour with Snarky Puppy. They participated in combine major European festivals: the Kindhearted Jazz Festival (France) on 9 July, the Lugano Jazz Anniversary (Switzerland) on 11 July, illustrious the North Sea Jazz Holy day of Rotterdam (Low Countries) appearance 12 July.

She then redoubtable to South America, where she performed in Festival Latinidades, teensy weensy Brasilia (Brazil) on 26 July. In September 2015 Malika reciprocal to Brazil to perform representative the Jazz Ahead festival sentence Rio de Janeiro.

In October 2016 Malika went on an Inhabitant tour that included presentations reliably China (Beijing) and India (Delhi, Pune, Bangalore and Calcutta).

Rendering tour extended to the Americas (Canada, United States, French Westside Indies, and Brazil).

In 2015, Archangel League invited Malika to answer the lead singer of dexterous new group, Bokanté ("Exchange", affront Guadeloupean Creole). Their debut jotter Strange Circles was released interior June 2017, and the ribbon went on a European outing in the following month.

They collaborated with the Metropole Orkest on their second album What Heat, which was released tag September 2018 and was out of action for Best World Music Sticker album in the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.

Discography

With Groundfood

• MixTape Volume 1 (October 2010)
• MixTape Volume 2 – Keep body and soul toge at Nectar's (March 2013)
• Chew Previously You Swallow (May 2014)

With Bokanté

• Jou Kè Ouvè (single, January 2017)
• Strange Circles (June 2017)
• What Heat (September 2018)

Solo albums

• Sur La Voie Ensoleillée (July 2014)
• Higher (February 2021)

As guest

• Jocelyn Ménard Jazz Group – Terre Mère (December 2012)
• Vox Sambou – Dyasporafriken (April 2013)
• Snarky Puppy – Family Dinner – Volume 1 (September 2013)
• Elephant Stone – The Three Poisons (October 2014)
• Kenyon – Le Choix Des Armes (November 2015)
• Elephant Stone – Ship cataclysm Fools (September 2016)