{"id":8096,"date":"2022-03-30T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/?p=8096"},"modified":"2022-04-01T12:10:28","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T10:10:28","slug":"homage-to-a-great-maloya-musician-francoise-guimbert-1945-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/homage-to-a-great-maloya-musician-francoise-guimbert-1945-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to a great Maloya musician Fran\u00e7oise Guimbert (1945-2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Fran\u00e7oise Guimbert, the Maloya singer, died at her home on 25th March 2022, at the age of 76.<\/h2>\n<p>Her life was an example of perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>The musician, nicknamed \u2018the godmother of the Maloya\u2019, was born in a poor family of Saint-Beno\u00eet. She completed primary\u00a0 school, then at the age of 12 went to work as a housekeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Gifted and determined, the composer, songwriter, singer and percussionist had her first musical success in 1978 with the song \u2018Tantine Zaza\u2019, which she recorded with Ren\u00e9 Lacaille at the Studio Royal in Saint-Joseph.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8096-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/poster_guimbert.jpg\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Guimbert_rouler_eng_sub.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Guimbert_rouler_eng_sub.mp4\">https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Guimbert_rouler_eng_sub.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018Tantine Zaza\u2019: an interview with Fran\u00e7oise Guimbert conducted by Laurent Pantal\u00e9on in 2018<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She then created the group Voulvoul, consisting of 18 musicians and male and female dancers. At a time when the Maloya scene was largely dominated by men, she was the first woman to set up a Maloya group on the island.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, recording her album Paniandy, Fran\u00e7oise Guimbert became known outside Reunion.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, she was made Knight of the Legion of Honour, at the same time as the musician Firmin Viry.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, on the stage of the Cit\u00e9 des arts, Fran\u00e7oise Guimbert celebrated her 45 years of performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7oise Guimbert, the Maloya singer, died at her home on 25th March 2022, at the age of 76. Her life was an example of perseverance. The musician, nicknamed \u2018the godmother of the Maloya\u2019, was born in a poor family of Saint-Beno\u00eet. She completed primary\u00a0 school, then at the age of 12 went to work as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/homage-to-a-great-maloya-musician-francoise-guimbert-1945-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Homage to a great Maloya musician Fran\u00e7oise Guimbert (1945-2022)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portail-esclavage-reunion.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}