Marijosé Alie

Born in Paris on April 4, 1951, Marijosé Alie grew up in Martinique, where she learned to play the piano and developed a passion for writing. She returned to Paris to study journalism, literature and sociology, before joining a music group. After graduating, Marijosé was welcomed back to Martinique by the Office de Radiodiffusion et Télévision Française (O.R.T.F.), where she worked as a radio and television journalist. Transferred to Burgundy, she took advantage of her stay to record her first song, "Caressé Mwen", with the group Malavoi. While the song was gaining a large audience, the singer-journalist travelled to Brazil and Jamaica for reports, before presenting her first album, Gaoulé, in 1989. Although these compositions did not gain the popular success of her first hit, they contributed to the history of zouk by adding pop accents ("Mélancolie"). Marijosé Alie continued to pursue her two passions, as director of RFO-Martinique and composer of a second album, Zambouya, released in 1999. The French artist uses music as a new means of dealing with current affairs, in particular the major social and political issues in the Antilles, which she evokes in her lyrics sung in Creole. More discreet on the musical front, Marijosé Alie devotes most of her time to her work as a journalist, before a third album, Madanm, unveiled in 2020.

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