Zap Mama is a Belgian musical group founded and led by Marie Daulne. Daulne says her mission is to be a bridge between the European and the African and bring the two cultures together with her music. 01_daulne.asp" target="_blank">Intermix. "Marie Daulne Is Zap Mama." "What I would like to do is bring sounds from [Africa] and bring it to the Western world, because I know that through sound and through beats, that people discover a new culture, a new people, a new world." Zap Mama specializes in polyphonic, harmonic music with a mixture of heavily infused _African instruments, R&B, and Hip-hop and emphasizes voice in all their music. "The voice is an instrument itself," says Daulne. "It's the original instrument. The primary instrument. The most soulful instrument, the human voice." They sing in French and English with deep African roots.

Zap Mama was originally an all-female a cappella quintet founded by Marie Daulne , a Belgian artist with roots in Zaire/Democratic Republic of Congo. Since the release of Supermoon in 2007, Daulne’s project, (still called Zap Mama) isn’t a cappella at all. She fronts a a 7 person band with two backup singers, keyboards, bass, drums and percussion/decks. The music is jazz, RnB, cabaret and beatboxing all at once! Daulne’s cross-genre style might be the product of an interesting and varied p