Marseille-based outfit is multiculturalism in action.
Multiculturalism has become something of a hot-button topic in recent times, both in the UK, where David Cameron has declared state multiculturalism "failed", and in France, where the state has worked to legislate against Muslim women wearing veils. Against such a fractious backdrop, a group like Marseille-based Watcha Clan cannot help but represent something more than a simple pop band.
Bringing together vocalist Sista K, the daughter of a Jewish Polish mother and an Berber freedom-fighter father, with a cast of musicians from the French Alps, Corsica and Algeria, this group are multiculturalism in action. And by calling their new album Radio Babel – a reference to the Biblical city of Babel, where all the languages of the world were spoken – they posit the blurring of cultural boundaries as a central facet of their work.
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