Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...
-based French multicultural
music collective
Musical collective is a phrase used to describe a group of musicians in which membership is flexible and creative control is shared.Liisa Ladouceur"Collective Souls" ''This Magazine'', November/December 2004. The concept is distinct from that of ...
established in 2009 through an initiative of
DJ Mam's
Morad Mameri better known by his stage name DJ Mam's born in Marseille, France, in 1972 is a Marseille-based French DJ of Algerian descent. He is signed to Wagram
Deutsch-Wagram (literally "German Wagram", ), often shortened to Wagram, is a v ...
(Morad Mameri) and by Mounir Belkhir. It initially include six singers and musicians. The collective has expanded since then.M13 Radio - 123 Marseille
It incorporates various music trends and multicultural aspects Marseille culture represents and members and releases are promoted through the Collectif own website 123marseille.com and has grown to include even more musicians, producers, songwriters is an impressive mixture of singing artists from France, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal and elsewhere incorporating French Marseille music, Mediterranean, African, Latin and Oriental Arab sounds, disco, pop, rap, funk, and using various world music influences and trends. The collectif is also
multilingual
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in its various releases using French, Spanish, English,
Arabic language
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and North African dialects and African languages. It also uses
creole language
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s relating to Andalusia as well as creoles related to Martinique and Guadeloupe and elsewhere.
Most of the songs are produced by Mounir Belkhir and DJ Mam's himself. Many of the songs are tried out live to see how well they are received prior to inclusion in studio releases.
Members
123 Marseille presently includes:
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DJ Mam's
Morad Mameri better known by his stage name DJ Mam's born in Marseille, France, in 1972 is a Marseille-based French DJ of Algerian descent. He is signed to Wagram
Deutsch-Wagram (literally "German Wagram", ), often shortened to Wagram, is a v ...
*Mounir Belkhir
*Doukali
*Ilhem
*Imène Eva
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Luis Guisao
Luis Guisao is a Marseille-based singer who grew up in St Henri, a village neighborhood of mainly Andalusian gypsies near L'Estaque
L'Estaque (; ) is a village in southern France, just west of Marseille. Administratively, it belongs to the commu ...