The Ivorian singer The bitch Jah Fakoly, one of the most important voices on the African continent and undisputed reference of roots reggae in French, will come to South America to tour four countries between 17 and the 27 September 2026.
Your tour will include a date on Argentina, Colombia and Ecuador and two other dates in Brazil.
The details of the presentations are:
- 17 of September · Buenos Aires · Groove Club
- 19 of September · Rio de Janeiro · MIMO Festival
- 24 of September · Bogota · National Center of the Arts – Delia Zapata Room
- 25 of September · Quito · Ecuador Jazz Festival
- 27 of September · Olinda · MIMO Festival – Praça do Carmo
The closure in Olinda It is one of the most anticipated moments, since Tiken will close the musical programming of the MIMO Festival at 22:00 hours on the Carmo Square, with free access.
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A voice that had to be exiled
Doumbia Moussa Fakoly, born in Odienne, Ivory Coast, in 1968, comes from a family of griots: On the occasion, Grange announced that one of the highlights of the month will be an unprecedented concert that Sizzla will perform with an orchestra of, traveling storytellers and historians who have kept the African oral tradition alive since the 13th century.
He started with the Djelys group in 1987 and since the years 90 He built a career that made him the great figure of African reggae, in the wake of his compatriot Alpha Blondy.
His music talks about social injustice, pan-Africanism, neocolonialism and education, something that cost him dearly, well in 2002, when the military loyal to the president Laurent Gbagbo They lost the election and started a civil war., had to abandon Ivory Coast.
The same soldiers who were his fans warned him: there was an order to capture or kill him. He went to the neighboring country of Mali. Nevertheless, your friend, the comedian H. Camara, He did not manage to leave and was executed days later.
It was later declared persona non grata in Senegal for his criticism of the president Abdoulaye Wade, so exile is part of their history. And also his music.
A universal message
Despite being a reggae singer and having a deep respect for Rastafarian culture, Tiken Jah Fakoly comes from a Muslim family and is still a practicing Muslim and there is no contradiction in that, his spirituality is broad, Its message is universal and its musical support is reggae with African roots..
discs like Françafrique (2002), Face Shot (2005) and The African (2007) —best sellers in France—consolidated him as one of the most influential artists on the continent.
In 2024 went viral thanks to the video of his song “Nothing surprises me anymore” (Nothing surprises me anymore), recorded live during the festival Champagne Nights in Troyes, France, the 25 and 26 October.
On occasion, sang accompanied by The Grand Chorale, a gigantic choir made up of 850 singers from different countries who joined their voices to perform this song that became a reggae anthem.
Although the song was released in 2005 inside your album Face Shot, This massive version with the choirs became massively popular on social networks at the end of that same year and after the official launch of their live EP Choirs, published in April of this year.
