Vocalist, dancer, gimbrist LALA TAMAR is a sought after performer on the world stage. Her concerts cull the deep secrets of North African groove with feminine prowess and multicultural generosity. Reclaiming her Moroccan/Brazilian heritage with attitude, LALA TAMAR is pop music’s new Eastern muse. 

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Ancient songs touched by the spell of gnawa trance, her grandmother’s music resurrected from the atlas mountains with the unstoppable rhythms of qarqaba and electric bass. The Moroccan pop quartet cooks keys/synths alongside drums and percussion, a pocket honed over generations, rhythm in the bones that makes strangers leap and mountains call back in heterophonic reply. 

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Famous on the streets of Marrakech, LALA’s videos have collected millions of hits. Coming off a sold out debut at Lincoln Center, the singer is an emergent force, delighting new and old friends across the globe. An evening with LALA TAMAR is a pure gift, irrefutably transformative.
 

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PRESS

 

‘’Tamar went studying Moroccan and invested long hours uncovering old ethnographic recordings of Jewish Moroccan women singing in Haqetiya (a unique dialect spoken among the jews of Spanish Morocco) from the National Archive in Jerusalem. Painstakingly transcribing the lyrics, Tamar’s journey to reclaim her heritage began. She delved deeper and deeper into these ancient melodies, becoming the first artist to start compiling an artistic album in this unique dialect and was soon picked up by the Jerusalem band Z’aaluk.’’

Rhythm Passport 

“She possesses a voice that stirs the soul and instills within it an overwhelming sense of joy. Her presence captivates whenever her voice fills the air, shaping a moment of pure vocal musicality. Lala Tamar (Tamar Bloch Amar), whose name carries both biblical and natural symbolism (tamar = date palm), sings like an angel chosen by destiny to awaken the spirituality within us.”

Al Bayane

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