Marie Daulne

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marie Daulne
Occupation	Singer
Date Of Birth	Oct 20, 1964(1964-10-20)
Age	60
Birthplace	Isiro
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Birth City	Haut-Uele District
Horoscope	Libra

Marie Daulne Biography

Marie Daulne is one of the most popular and richest Singer who was born on October 20, 1964 in Isiro, Haut-Uele District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marie Daulne /’ d U: L I N Marie Daulne / (born 20th October in 1964) is a Belgian artist.

A committed human rights activist, Daulne spends a lot of her time to safeguard rights of the human race and fight the global issue of poverty by working with organisations like Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, CARE, and the United Nations. In 1993, Zap Mama was approached to sing in an advertisement for Coca-Cola Daulne’s initial reaction was no. But Daulne was rethinking his decision. “But we do like Robin Hood,” Daulne said. “I thought there is money there that can go to help people. I see poor people and think, ‘Maybe one day when Zap Mama is over, I can help people.’ Then I thought, I can help people now.” Zap Mama created the commercial and then used the money to fund the construction of an education facility in Africa.

Luaka Bop Records repackaged the first Crammed Discs release for American listeners in 1993 as Adventures in Afropea 1. By the end of the year, Billboard announced it was the top seller for “world music.” Zap Mama went on tour playing New York’s Central Park, Paris’ Olympia, the Jazz-festival of Montreux. After the success of Adventures in Afropea 1, Daulne said the record company “wanted to mould us into a poppy girl band, but I said, ‘No, you’ll kill me’, and I stopped. Everyone was asking why I wanted to stop when we’d finally arrived at the top. But I felt that it was completely wrong. I wasn’t ready. I wasn’t strong enough. The manager said that if I stopped then, I’d be killing my career, but it was my decision.”

Daulne is the founder and lead singer of the music group Zap Mama whose second album, Adventures in Afropea 1, “became 1993’s best-selling world music album and established Zap Mama as an international concert sensation.” With “over six albums and countless concerts, she continues to pay tribute to the family’s saviors.” Daulne insists that “one tune on each of her reggae-, soul-, funk- and hip-hop-infused albums be a traditional Pygmy song.”

Zap Mama started to gain fans across America. United States even before their arrival , earning the attention of the college radio station of the University of Santa Monica, which was the place where the album topped the station’s official charts for a few weeks. In 1992, Marc Maes wrote in Billboard that Zap Mama was the “flavor of the month on the international circuit.” Randall Grass praised them in the Village Voice for their “positively ground-breaking amalgams of African, Arabic, and European melody, and snatches of South African mbube amidst a little Bulgarian mystere.” In 1992, when Zap Mama came to the United States for the first time in 1992 to play at the New Music Seminar in New York they came across David Byrne and agreed to allow him to bring back Zap Mama’s very first album under the name Adventures in Afropea 1 on Luaka Bop Records. “I don’t know the music of this man, but I know this man is good,” declared Daulne. “We have the same passion.” Yale Evelev, President of Luaka Bop Records, said Zap Mama was a big impression on him as well as Byrne. “It’s very popular music but there’s a real artistic underpinning to it. It’s not someone saying, ‘What can I do to be successful?’ It’s someone saying, ‘This is the music I want to do.'”

Marie Daulne Net Worth

Marie Daulne is one of the richest Singer from Democratic Republic of the Congo. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marie Daulne 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Daulne was a jazz student in college but realized that she would like to concentrate on a distinct type of sound that merged music from all over the world. It was the Antwerp School of Jazz provided Daulne with a brief amount of formal education where she was able to study “Arab, Asian and African polyphony.” Then , Daulne made the decision to go back in Congo Kinshasa in 1984 to discover her roots and learn about pygmy and onomatopoeic vocal technique. “When I went to the Congo, I hadn’t thought of being a musician. Not at all. But I was there, and I was standing in the middle of the forest, hearing the music that had been a part of my earliest memories, and it was like an illumination, like a light,” Daulne stated.

Daulne has returned home to Belgium eager to start making herself music. “Spending time with the pygmies, all the music came to me,” Daulne states. “And when I came back to Belgium, I found all the energy to put it all together, and to find singers to sing with me.” Daulne was in 1989 and had spent some time singin’ throughout Brussels on jazz bars. It was then that she decided to form an organization that would bring together the various cultures that she has experienced and in the year 1990 she created her group Zap Mama. “I didn’t want to use my own name, I didn’t really feel like it would come from me, because it was like the spirit of the ancestors talking to me and using me to translate what’s going on,” Daulne states.

At the same time Sabsylma was being created, Director Violaine de Villers made a documentary, Mizike Mama, (1993) that presents a group portrait of Zap Mama. The film focuses on Daulne and discusses the implications of membership in a racially mixed group that consciously fuses African rhythms and vocal tones with European polyphony. The documentary won the International Visual Music award for Best Popular Music TV Documentary.

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Daulne moved back to Belgium after three years in the United States and now calls Brussels home. “I lived in the United States from 2000 to 2004 and it is a place with so many stars. When I met a lot of big celebrities I realized I was not a big star and that I didn’t want to be, because your life would be a habit, stuck in this and that. I prefer the singularity. I prefer to be me.” Daulne finds life easier in Belgium. “I used to live in New York, and the system in Belgium is much better than in America. It’s much easier for families here.” “With my family, my husband, my children, the people I love — that is home.” Daulne still draws inspiration from her travels. “Currently, I feel the need to go to England, because a lot of interesting things are happening over there. In my band, there are a lot of young musicians who teach me completely new things. They challenge me – and that is the way I like it,” Daulne says. Daulne also found American interests and values different from Europe. “American people are so addicted to music — sports and music,” says Daulne. “Where I live, with the French influence, it’s the foods that are very important, and literature — all this probably more important than sports and music.”

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Marie Ranked on the list of most popular Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Democratic Republic of the Congo. Marie Daulne celebrates birthday on October 20 of every year.

In Supermoon (2007), Daulne’s vocals take centerstage. “When the audience appreciates the art of the artist, the audience becomes the sun and makes the artist shine as a full moon,” says Daulne. Supermoon is also one of Daulne’s most personal statements with songs like “Princess Kesia,” an ode to her daughter and how she is no longer a baby but a beautiful girl. “With Supermoon, I reveal the way I chose to live when I started my career,” says Daulne. “It’s very intimate…You’re seeing me very close up. I hope that’s a kind of intimacy that people will understand. I’m opening a door to who I am.” “I always used to hide myself, and I’m not complaining about it, but now it is time to show my eyes and my femininity and my delicate side,” said Daulne. “I am proud to be so feminine, because I have taken the time to develop the inside of my femininity. Now that I have that, I can face anybody. And if anybody challenges me, there is no problem.”