{"id":126516,"date":"2023-09-22T14:54:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T12:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=126516"},"modified":"2023-09-22T15:53:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T13:53:34","slug":"pam-meets-queen-asher-rehema-tajiri-magnifique-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/pam-meets-queen-asher-rehema-tajiri-magnifique-society\/","title":{"rendered":"PAM Meets: Queen Asher & Rehema Tajiri at La Magnifique Society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hidden in the Parc de Champagne, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Magnifique Society hosts festival goers from the local cities of Epernay and Troyes and as far as Paris, Lille, Amiens or Brussels. For the 2023 edition, the Magnifique Society brought major Francophone acts like Aya Nakamura and Ang\u00e8le with an extension into the African music sphere via Lova Lova, Kabeaush and Afrobeats superstar Rema.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, PAM, in partnership with Nyege Nyege, did a takeover of one of the stages, inviting Ugandan DJ Decay and Tanzanian mother-daughter duo Queen Asher and Rehema Tajiri. A 100% feminine set mixing the trap, dancehall and afro-electro beats of DJ Decay and the frenetic singeli sounds of Queen Asher and Rehema. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Singeli, a descendant of Tanzania\u2019s taraab music, is a hyper-fast, piano-laden sound that is currently popping off in the neighbourhoods of Dar es Salaam. A genre dominated by males, producer and DJ Queen Asher and singer and frontwoman Rehema Tajiri are bringing a new flavor to the scene, both at home and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locally, singeli has a reputation as hoodlum music. Weed smokers and knife wielders have become associated with the chaotic rhythms and cardio pace. \u201cI wanted to change the image of singeli,<\/em>\u201d Rehema Tajiri, Asher\u2019s mother, explains. \u201cMy lyrics are mostly about being happy and life in general<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Starting out as a Congolese dancer and musician, Rehema, Asher\u2019s mother, was drawn into the game despite her age. Her years allow her to \u201ceducate the youth on how to live better<\/em>\u201d in a time when singeli is taking over stages around the world. It\u2019s a responsibility. Asher, who produces her own beats and mixes live on stage, takes on a different responsibility as a woman. \u201cI\u2019m giving [singeli] some other vibe which is full of feminine energy and confidence,<\/em>\u201d she says. \u201cEveryone has their own magical thing, so I wanted to try and find my own.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than partners or mother and daughter, Asher and Rehema are friends. Sleeping on each other\u2019s shoulders during long bus rides on tour, watching Rema perform and meeting him backstage, and glittering up before \u201csingeli time\u201d on stage. The duo are on a mission and hold a title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are the queens of singeli music,<\/em>\u201d Rehema says proudly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Director Marion Desmerat follows the singeli mother-daughter duo Queen Asher and Rehema Tajiri throughout the Magnifique Society Festival in Reims for a look inside the feminine energy of Tanzania\u2019s fastest club music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":126532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944,9402],"tags":[23843,41311,23851],"location":[],"yst_prominent_words":[12616,14161,25653,8447,9415,8402,9378,8857],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126516"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=126516"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=126516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}