MEDI1TV Afrique : #Chronique_culture / Rencontre avec l'auteur-interprète Sonia Noor - 17/12/2024
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00:00Welcome to Medea TV and Zoom in this cultural chronicle on a young singer Sonia Noor who is releasing her first album.
00:19Sonia Noor, it is a pleasure and an honor to be with you.
00:23Sonia Noor, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.
00:26We had the chance to meet a little less than 5 years ago, but it took you so much time for this first album. First, a first feeling.
00:36Thank you for having me, it's a pleasure to be in your chronicle.
00:40The first feeling is that I am very happy to release this album. It is a very intimate album, which speaks of very personal subjects and at the same time a little universal.
00:53These are strong themes that I hope will resonate in the hearts of everyone.
00:59And then yes, a lot of pride because it is a self-produced album, hence the time it takes because there is creative time and creative time.
01:08But it's a pleasure and I'm very happy to be able to share it with everyone.
01:13As I said, it's been 5 years, you had the opportunity to produce yourself in 2020 at Visa for Music. You also came back for this edition 2024.
01:25Does this festival have a special place in your heart?
01:30Is that what pushed you to say to yourself, why not? Singing is good, but having your own album, your own creations, because you said it, is it also important for you?
01:42Of course, Visa for Music has a very special place in my heart because it is the first festival and music market in Africa and the Middle East that has been fighting since the 11th edition
01:54to highlight the artistic showcase of Morocco and the rest of the world, but which pushes Moroccan artists a lot.
02:01So I had the chance to participate in 2020, we did a capsule on digital.
02:05It's great as an artist to have such a business card with a very high quality video.
02:11It's great to be able to present it to other festivals, to other promoters.
02:15And then this year, live on the Visa stage, I think that clearly, in my artistic career, from the very beginning, I wanted to write because for me, music is a vector.
02:28I could have done painting, but I like to sing. Since I was little, I like to sing and dance.
02:34So, it's special for me to transmit messages, to transmit values, to transmit messages of love, of peace, things that make air and also conscious messages,
02:44but in an envelope of singing, of voluptuousness. I aspire to that, to share sweetness and messages through my art.
02:52Precisely, this sweetness and this voluptuousness, we feel it on stage, because I had the chance to see you on the Renaissance stage.
02:58So, the audience that responds to you. I also had the chance to see your latest clips.
03:04So, I savour them, let's say things like that. You talk a lot about women.
03:08Women are very present in your texts. Does she also have a place of choice in this new album?
03:14Well, for me, women are the center of the world, in all humility.
03:19No, but in truth, I was raised by women, I had lots of aunts, by my mother, who is a very strong figure.
03:27I released a song called Shahrazad a few years ago, in tribute to my mother, who is my spear.
03:34I think it's an expression, but I think it's important to celebrate her, because today, the place of women is to be seen on certain things.
03:45We have made a lot of evolutions, but for example, I talk about harassment in the streets, the place of women in the public space,
03:52which today, I find, is not yet... I mean, I go out in the street, I don't feel safe.
03:58I don't feel safe, I feel... I mean, all the time I go out, I'm like, OK, let's go.
04:03No, well, at some point, when your nervous system is all the time above, it's not pleasant.
04:07So, with these initiatives, which are part of many associations that work in this direction, it's absolutely great.
04:16Otherwise, there is also a more dancing and more federative celebration of Mraou Mraou Mraou.
04:23It's a song that we released in 2020, with Mr. Heidi, in electro version.
04:28And here, we're doing a live version, and it's the celebration of the Moroccan woman with all her splendor, with Shaiba, with everything she needs.
04:35So, there you go, women have a huge place.
04:37So, Sonia Noor, how do you see your place in this Moroccan musical scene, which is very rich, which is very diverse,
04:45by its women, by its men, by its young people, by its older people.
04:49But there is such a diversity in the Moroccan musical scene.
04:53How do you feel in this, let's say, in this great sea?
04:58Well, I already feel honored to be part of it.
05:01I feel lucky to be at this time, because I think we are in a time, a little crazy, a little scary, but full of opportunities.
05:08Because today, finally, we have the possibility to sing in several languages, and it's normal.
05:14A few years ago, we said, OK, but you sing in Spanish, and in Arabic, and in French, and in English, and why?
05:19You have to choose something.
05:20While no, in fact, I grew up listening to Le Gipsy King, Oum Kilsoum, Faye Rose, Erykah Badu.
05:26And it's important for me to be able to enter, merge languages, and also styles, to be able to just be authentic.
05:35My vision, my goal is always to try to stay as authentic as possible.
05:42And it's great, because I think the Moroccan scene is really flourishing.
05:46A lot of great things are happening, whether it's in rap, in electro, in live.
05:50And it's a great time to be part of this.
05:55One last question, so as not to fail at this meeting.
05:59What is the title of your album?
06:01And if you had to address your audience, what would you say to them very briefly?
06:08I would say that D'Aouini, which is the name of the album, which means Heal Me,
06:13is a letter of love to oneself and to others, to all those in whom it will vibrate.
06:20It's a story of a journey, of an initiative quest, of personal development,
06:25of learning to love yourself more, to accept yourself and to take your place.
06:30Just what it takes to accept yourself through all these colors, to accept darkness,
06:37to be OK with going through complicated phases, because for me it's both sides of the same coin.
06:43And D'Aouini is that, it's this connection.
06:48I hope there will be one or more lines that will resonate in your hearts.
06:52Sonia Nour, thank you very much for accepting our invitation.