LALA TAMAR is what happens when Moroccan soul and Brazilian beats meet on the dancefloor. A singer-songwriter, poet, guimbri player, dancer, and world traveler, LALA TAMAR stirs ancient North African rituals into fresh, feminine alchemy. She sings in Arabic, Amazigh, and Portuguese, making music that feels like flipping through your grandmother’s photo album while dancing in a poppy dreamscape.
 

LALA TAMAR made history as the first artist to record a contemporary album in Haquetia and one of the first women to introduce the guimbri to new musical worlds. She’s shared stages with North African greats like Karim Ziad, Khadija El Warzazia, and Mehdi Nassouly, and recently made her Lincoln Center debut in NYC.

With her upcoming album, written mainly in Darija, LALA TAMAR takes you on an intimate feminine Moroccan dive, an upbeat tribute to her ancestry. She invites you to join her world: a place of play and poetry, softness and strength, where music isn't just heard... it's remembered.

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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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