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Malouma


Malouma Mint Moktar Ould Meidah (Arabic: المعلومة بنت الميداح) was born in the sixties in Mederdra (Trarza), into a family of griots. Her life seemed all mapped out. The daughter of Moktar Ould Meidah, a prominent traditional musician as well as a highly skilled poet, she is also the granddaughter of Mohamed Yahya Ould Boubane, another virtuoso of words and the tidinit (a small traditional guitar used by griots). She grew up in Charatt (a small town near Mederdra), where her parents taught her the basics of traditional harp playing. She started to sing at a very young age, and performed for the first time at the age of 12, an age when tradition requires that the daughters of important families be already prepared for a 'responsible' life (marriage and self-sufficiency). She started to draw from the traditional repertoire that her parents, especially her father, had enriched. At the age of fifteen, she was already an accomplished griot, not only accompanying her parents but performing whole concerts on her own. At the same period, along with her father, she started to listen to songs by Oum Kalthoum, Adbel Hlim Hafez, Fairouz, Nasri Cherns, Dine, Sabah etc. And as she grew up she also discovered another musical style that was not far from the music she mastered: blues. She wrote small songs that were quite popular with young girls. But the weight of tradition pushed her into the fetters of marriage and conformism. It took until the late eighties for her to ...

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