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'''Often considered among his fans as the New King of Salegy, WAWA is a singer-songwriter of Malagasy music called salegy. His group revolutionises traditional Malagasy music while retaining its authenticity. WAWA made himself a name by performing with other renowned Malagasy artists recognised throughout the world. His band is also known in France as in Africa and especially throughout the islands of the Indian Ocean.'''
  
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Jhenny: Vous arrive-t-il de prendre le taxi?  
 
  
WAWA: rarement, car en chaque région ou ville dont je vais, on loue une voiture pour facilité notre transport. Mais quand j’en prends, je suis toujours bien déguiser pour que même le chauffeur ne me reconnaisse pas.
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'''We had the chance to interview WAWA during his tour in [[Sambava]] and are happy to share the few things we learned about him through Jhenny's Q&A:'''
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<font color="green">Jhenny: Do you ever take a taxi?</font><br>
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What attracted you to the world of music?</font><br>
WAWA: Rarely, because in each region or city where I go, we rent a car for ease of our transport. But when I take one, I'm always well-disguised so that even the driver doesn't recognise me.
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WAWA: Music has always been my pleasure, before when I was a carpenter, I played music for my pleasure, after, all my world turned to music, it became my job and my pleasure.
  
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<font color="green">Jhenny: Explain us your creation process?</font><br>
Jhenny: Quel est ta manière préféré pour te détendre ?
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WAWA: I am a complete musician and artist, I can play almost every instrument. I bring my mobile studio with me wherever I go, when I'm quiet I start to create piece by piece, I do not take the moments of others and add parts, no, I start to compose by a blank page and I add moments pieces by pieces until I have complete music, I am the origin of A to Z of my music.
WAWA: l’avantage dans la musique, c’est qu’elle est source de détente et c’est ma source de détente.  
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your favourite way to relax?</font><br>
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WAWA: The advantage in music is that it is a source of relaxation and it is my source of relaxation.
 
 
 
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Jhenny: Que prenez vous au petit-déjeuner?
 
WAWA: d’habitude, c’est œuf sur plat, thé et fruits de la saison
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your favourite breakfast?</font><br>
 
WAWA: Usually, it's fried egg, tea and fruits of the season.
 
 
 
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Jhenny: Quels est votre mauvaise habitude ?
 
WAWA: je suis quelqu’un de très calme, mais facilement irritable
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your worst habit?</font><br>
 
WAWA: I am someone very calm, but also easily irritable.
 
 
 
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Jhenny: Quel est votre source d’inspiration?
 
WAWA: cela dépend, quelques fois, je reste seul au calme et j’arrive à créer, mais aussi cela m’arrive de crée entouré des amis en train de nous amuser et joué pour notre plaisir
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your source of inspiration?</font><br>
 
<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your source of inspiration?</font><br>
 
WAWA: It depends, sometimes when I'm alone in peace I can create, but it also happens to me when surrounded by friends having fun and playing for pleasure.
 
WAWA: It depends, sometimes when I'm alone in peace I can create, but it also happens to me when surrounded by friends having fun and playing for pleasure.
  
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What motivates you in this profession?</font><br>
Jhenny: Qu’est ce qui vous motive dans ce métier ?
 
WAWA: depuis toujours, ce sont mes fans ma motivation, en 16 ans d’expérience, mes fans ne fait que s’accroître, et cela, partout où je vais, à Madagascar et à l’étranger.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What motivates you in this job?</font><br>
 
 
WAWA: As always, it's my fans who are my motivation, in 16 years of experience, my fans are only increasing, wherever I go, in Madagascar and abroad.  
 
WAWA: As always, it's my fans who are my motivation, in 16 years of experience, my fans are only increasing, wherever I go, in Madagascar and abroad.  
  
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Jhenny: Quel est votre expérience le plus forte de votre vie?
 
WAWA: c’est la disparition de mon maître de musique, celui qui m ‘a initier à la musique le « docteur JB » et la mort de mon père m’a beaucoup traumatisé aussi.
 
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<font color="green">What is your strongest experience of your life?</font><br>
 
WAWA: It is the disappearance of my music teacher, the one who introduced me to the music "doctor JB" and the death of my father also traumatised me.
 
 
 
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Jhenny: Quel est votre réaction face à la critique?
 
WAWA: je supporte bien. Il y a deux caractéristiques de critique, il y a celui qu’on a besoin pour s’améliorer et il y a le critiques des jaloux, et je sais bien les différenciées.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: How do you react to criticism?</font><br>
 
<font color="green">Jhenny: How do you react to criticism?</font><br>
 
WAWA: I support it well. There are two characteristics of criticism; there is one meant to improve and there is another coming from jealousy, and I know to differentiate between them.
 
WAWA: I support it well. There are two characteristics of criticism; there is one meant to improve and there is another coming from jealousy, and I know to differentiate between them.
 
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Jhenny: Quel conseil donnez vous aux débutants dans ce métier?
 
WAWA: avant on pensait que la musique étais un travail illusoire, qu’on ne peut pas vivre avec la musique comme métier, mais maintenant la musique est un métier respectable, il faut juste être sérieux, si nos fans ne nous ont pas lâché jusqu’à aujourd’hui depuis 16 ans c’est qu’on est sérieux, on respecte ce métier, on respecte nos fans, quand on donne du concert, on donne le plaisirs que les fans demandent, c’est pourquoi ils seront toujours partant chaque années pour venir nous voir, si dans chaque ville et chaque années, nos concerts sont toujours plein c’est par ce qu’on donne tous, moi personnellement je donne mon corps et mon âme pour faire plaisirs
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What advice do you give to beginners in this job?</font><br>
 
<font color="green">Jhenny: What advice do you give to beginners in this job?</font><br>
 
WAWA: Before we thought that music was an illusory job, that we can not live with music as a profession, but now music is a respectable profession, we just have to be serious, if our fans did not let us down for 16 years means that we are serious, we respect this job, we respect our fans, when we give a concert, we give the enjoyment that the fans ask for, that's why they will always be starting every year to come to see us, if in every city and every year, our concerts are always full is by what we give all, me personally I give my body and my soul to create pleasure.
 
WAWA: Before we thought that music was an illusory job, that we can not live with music as a profession, but now music is a respectable profession, we just have to be serious, if our fans did not let us down for 16 years means that we are serious, we respect this job, we respect our fans, when we give a concert, we give the enjoyment that the fans ask for, that's why they will always be starting every year to come to see us, if in every city and every year, our concerts are always full is by what we give all, me personally I give my body and my soul to create pleasure.
  
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Jhenny: Quels sont vos projets à court et à long terme?
 
WAWA: Monprojet depuis quelques années c’est de travailler chaque année avec un nouvel artiste étranger, il y a le grand featuring que j’avais fait avec « diamond platnumz » cette année et on projeté de travaillé avec « Konshens » l’artiste Jamaïcain l’année prochaine. On n’arrête pas de donner quelque chose de mieux et de nouveau. —>Sur le long terme, si Dieu le veut, je ne sécherai jamais de donner plaisir à mes fans avec ce talent qu’il m’a donner, et de ne pas faire d’erreurs, je resterai concentré sur ce métier que j’aime.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What are your short and long term plans?</font><br>
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your favourite way to relax?</font><br>
WAWA: My project since a few years is to work every year with a new foreign artist, there was a great featuring that I made with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Platnumz Diamond Platnumz] this year and we plan to work with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konshens Konshens] the Jamaican artist next year. We do not stop doing something better and again. In the long run, God willing, I will never give up creating pleasure for my fans with this talent he gave me, and no make mistake, I will stay focused on this job that I love.  
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WAWA: The advantage in music is that it is a source of relaxation and it is my source of relaxation.
  
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<font color="green">Jhenny: Do you ever take a taxi?</font><br>
Jhenny: Quel est votre meilleur souvenir de voyage?
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WAWA: Rarely, because in each region or city where I go, we rent a car for ease of our transport. But when I take one, I'm always well-disguised so that even the driver doesn't recognise me.
  
WAWA: quand on part à Mayotte, c’est une petite île, mais quand on organise des spectacles c’est toujours pleins et en plus on en organise plus de 25 dates en un mois, mais les gens se font de plus en plus nombreux et ça me touche beaucoup, par ce que si les gens reviennent c’est par ce qu’ils m’aiment vraiment, c’est qu’ils sont vraiment satisfait de notre travaille.
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your best travel memory?</font><br>
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your favourite breakfast?</font><br>
WAWA: When we go to Mayotte, it's a small island, but when we organise shows it's always full and in addition we organise more than 25 performances in a month, but people are more and more numerous and it touches me a lot, because if people come back it's because they really love me, it's because they're really happy with our work.
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WAWA: Usually, it's fried egg, tea and fruits of the season.
  
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<font color="green">What is your strongest life experience?</font><br>
Jhenny: Quel est votre plus belle rencontre?
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WAWA: It is the disappearance of my music teacher, the one who introduced me to the music "[https://www.alefamusic.net/artistes/dr-jb-15 dr JB]" and the death of my father also traumatised me.
Les jeunes artistes comme Ngia Tax, Basta Lion, Big Mj, LukoKininike. Pour les anciennes générations, c'est des artistes que j’aime et qui sont souvent en contacte avec moi comme Din Rotsaka, Tianjama, Ninie Donia
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your best meeting?</font><br>
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WAWA: Young artists like Ngia Tax, Lion Basta, Big Mj, LukoKininike. For the older generations, I love artists who are often in contact with me like Din Rotsaka, Tianjama, Ninie Donia.
 
 
 
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Jhenny: Si vous gagniez au loto, qu’aller vous faire ou acheter?
 
 
 
WAWA: je créerai un grand parc pour les enfants, c’est ce qui manque à Nosy be, et je le nommerais « parc WAWA » comme wawa est un surnom que nous donnons souvent au bébé, un parc pour enfants convient mieux à mon nom wawa.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: If you win the lottery, what are you going to do or buy?</font><br>
 
WAWA: I will create a big park for children, that's what's missing on [[Nosy Be]], and I would call it "WAWA park" as wawa is a nickname that we often give to the baby, a park for children is better suited to my name WAWA.
 
 
 
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Jhenny: Quel est la chose qui t’exaspère le plus chez les gens?
 
WAWA: c’est le mensonge et la tromperie, je ne supporte pas cela, quand je travaille, je garde mon sérieux et mon professionnalisme et j’attends des gens qui sont en contacte avec moi la même chose.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is the thing that irritates you the most in people?</font><br>
 
<font color="green">Jhenny: What is the thing that irritates you the most in people?</font><br>
 
WAWA: It is the lie and the deception, I can not stand it, when I work, I keep my seriousness and my professionalism and I wait for people who connect with me in the same way.
 
WAWA: It is the lie and the deception, I can not stand it, when I work, I keep my seriousness and my professionalism and I wait for people who connect with me in the same way.
 
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Jhenny: Qu’est ce qui vous à attiré dans l’univers de la musique?
 
WAWA: La musique a toujours été mon plaisir, avant quand j’étais menuisier, je jouais de la musique pour mon plaisir, après, tous mon monde s’est basculer vers la musique, s'est devenu mon métier et mon plaisir. 
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What attracted you to the world of music?</font><br>
 
WAWA: Music has always been my pleasure, before when I was a carpenter, I played music for my pleasure, after, all my world turned to music, it became my job and my pleasure.
 
 
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Jhenny: Expliquez nous votre processus de création?
 
WAWA: je suis musicien et artistes complet, je sais jouer presque à tous les instruments. J’apporte avec moi partout où je vais mon studio mobile, quand je suis au calme je commence à crée pièce par pièces, je ne prend pas les instants des autres et ajoutes des pièces, non je commence à composer par une page blanche et j’ajoute pièces par pièces les instants jusqu’en avoir une musique complet, je suis l’origine de A à Z de mes musiques.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: Explain us your creation process?</font><br>
 
WAWA: I am a complete musician and artist, I can play almost every instrument. I bring my mobile studio with me wherever I go, when I'm quiet I start to create piece by piece, I do not take the moments of others and add parts, no, I start to compose by a blank page and I add moments pieces by pieces until I have complete music, I am the origin of A to Z of my music.
 
 
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WAWA: ma journée normale, c’est se réveiller vers midi après une nuit de représentation et de penser déjà au mis-en place, préparation et répétition du prochain spéctacle, pour moi une journée normale veut dire une journée ou je fait de la musique.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What does your normal day look like?</font><br>
 
<font color="green">Jhenny: What does your normal day look like?</font><br>
 
WAWA: My normal day is to wake up around noon after a night of performance and to think about the set-up, preparation and rehearsal of the next show, for me a normal day means a day where I play music.
 
WAWA: My normal day is to wake up around noon after a night of performance and to think about the set-up, preparation and rehearsal of the next show, for me a normal day means a day where I play music.
  
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Jhenny: Quels est votre réaction face au fan?
 
WAWA: avec mes fans je suis toujours prêt à faire leur plaisir, pour moi mes fans se doit toujours d’être satisfait. Même pendant mes représentations si un fan me demande de chanter une chanson de mes anciens albums, je le ferrerai même si cela fait pas partie de notre programme, c’est comme ça, je suis prêt à servir mes fans. -->
 
  
<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your reaction towards the fans?</font><br>
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your worst habit?</font><br>
WAWA: With my fans I'm always ready to please them, for me my fans must always be satisfied. Even during my performances if a fan asks me to sing a song from my old albums, I will do it even if it's not part of our program, that's how I'm ready to serve my fans.
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WAWA: I am someone very calm, but also easily irritable.
  
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What are your short and long term plans?</font><br>
Jhenny: Qu’est ce que vous préférez dans ce métier? Et ce que vous ne préférez pas?
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WAWA: My project since a few years is to work every year with a new foreign artist, there was a great featuring that I made with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_Platnumz Diamond Platnumz] this year and we plan to work with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konshens Konshens] the Jamaican artist next year. We do not stop doing something better and again. In the long run, God willing, I will never give up creating pleasure for my fans with this talent he gave me, and make no mistake, I will stay focused on this job that I love.
  
WAWA: j’aime mon travail, car grâce à cela, je peux nourrir ma famille, mais surtout la musique me relie avec le monde, je ne fait pas de politique, mais où je vais, on me reçoit cordialement même à l’étranger quand je produit, les gens viennent nombreux. Grace à ce métier, partout où je vais je suis bien reçu. —> la côte négative de ce travail est la manque de sommeils qui cause en générale la frustration et la nervosité. Je pense que même si c’est un travail/plaisir, il faut toujours avoir un jour de repos.
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What do you like in this job? And what don't you like?</font><br>
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your best travel memory?</font><br>
WAWA: I love my work, thanks to that, I can feed my family, and especially the music connects me with the world. I do not do politics, but where I go, I I'm received cordially even abroad when I produce. People come in large numbers. Thanks to this job, wherever I go I am well received. The negative side of the work is the lack of sleep that usually causes frustration and nervousness. I think that even if it's a job/pleasure, always take a day off.
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WAWA: When we go to Mayotte, it's a small island, but when we organise shows it's always full and in addition we organise more than 25 performances in a month, but people are more and more numerous and it touches me a lot, because if people come back it's because they really love me, it's because they're really happy with our work.
 
 
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WAWA: on a arrêté de produire des albums, on fait que quelques single, par exemple trois singles par ans, car avec la technologie le VCD et les DVD ne sont plus très demander, c’est le YouTube et la Facebook qui marche maintenant.
 
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<font color="green">Jhenny: Tell us about your new strategy?</font><br>
 
WAWA: We stopped producing albums, we made only a few singles, for example three singles a year, because with the technology the VCD and the DVDs are not really in demand anymore, it's YouTube and Facebook that is working now.
 
  
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your best encounter with other artists?</font><br>
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WAWA: Young artists like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8uACLCM3z8 Ngiah Tax], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPM6FMtezwM Basta Lion], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6R4PM9WSs&list=PLhqAuplISKV9vHUmEjUEzdR2WM7hWW7Ps&index=1 Big MJ], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSaLePBlww0 Liko Kininike]. For the older generations, I love artists who are often in contact with me like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVF0QPZ6tgo Din Rotsaka], [https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Musician-Band/Tianjama-135878923234171/ Tianjama], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninie_Doniah Ninie Doniah].
  
 
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WAWA: I will create a big park for children, that's what's missing on [[Nosy Be]], and I would call it "WAWA park" as wawa is a nickname that we often give to the baby, a park for children is better suited to my name WAWA.
  
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What is your approach towards your fans?</font><br>
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WAWA: With my fans I'm always ready to please them, for me my fans must always be satisfied. Even during my performances if a fan asks me to sing a song from my old albums, I will do it even if it's not part of our program, that's how I'm ready to serve my fans.
  
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<font color="green">Jhenny: What do you like in this job? And what don't you like?</font><br>
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WAWA: I love my work, thanks to that, I can feed my family, and especially the music connects me with the world. I do not do politics, but where I go, I'm received cordially even abroad when I produce. People come in large numbers. Thanks to this job, wherever I go I am well-received. The negative side of the work is the lack of sleep that usually causes frustration and nervousness. I think that even if it's a job/pleasure, always take a day off.
  
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WAWA: We stopped producing albums, we made only a few singles, for example three singles a year, because with the technology the VCD and the DVDs are not really in demand anymore, it's YouTube and Facebook that is working now.
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''WAWA was interviewed in [[Sambava]] by Jhenny RAZAFIMALALA in September 2019. Jhenny is an occasional contributor on MadaCamp. For further information, contact via [https://web.facebook.com/Jhenny.Emery facebook.com/Jhenny.Emery] or email [mailto:jhenny@madacamp.com jhenny@madacamp.com].''
  
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== Further information ==
 
 
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* https://www.facebook.com/WawaSalegyOfficiel
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* https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeLK8FpvY3qo_qUTJfNisnw

Latest revision as of 15:51, 31 October 2020

Often considered among his fans as the New King of Salegy, WAWA is a singer-songwriter of Malagasy music called salegy. His group revolutionises traditional Malagasy music while retaining its authenticity. WAWA made himself a name by performing with other renowned Malagasy artists recognised throughout the world. His band is also known in France as in Africa and especially throughout the islands of the Indian Ocean.

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We had the chance to interview WAWA during his tour in Sambava and are happy to share the few things we learned about him through Jhenny's Q&A:

Jhenny: What attracted you to the world of music?
WAWA: Music has always been my pleasure, before when I was a carpenter, I played music for my pleasure, after, all my world turned to music, it became my job and my pleasure.

Jhenny: Explain us your creation process?
WAWA: I am a complete musician and artist, I can play almost every instrument. I bring my mobile studio with me wherever I go, when I'm quiet I start to create piece by piece, I do not take the moments of others and add parts, no, I start to compose by a blank page and I add moments pieces by pieces until I have complete music, I am the origin of A to Z of my music.

Jhenny: What is your source of inspiration?
WAWA: It depends, sometimes when I'm alone in peace I can create, but it also happens to me when surrounded by friends having fun and playing for pleasure.

Jhenny: What motivates you in this profession?
WAWA: As always, it's my fans who are my motivation, in 16 years of experience, my fans are only increasing, wherever I go, in Madagascar and abroad.

Jhenny: How do you react to criticism?
WAWA: I support it well. There are two characteristics of criticism; there is one meant to improve and there is another coming from jealousy, and I know to differentiate between them.

Jhenny: What advice do you give to beginners in this job?
WAWA: Before we thought that music was an illusory job, that we can not live with music as a profession, but now music is a respectable profession, we just have to be serious, if our fans did not let us down for 16 years means that we are serious, we respect this job, we respect our fans, when we give a concert, we give the enjoyment that the fans ask for, that's why they will always be starting every year to come to see us, if in every city and every year, our concerts are always full is by what we give all, me personally I give my body and my soul to create pleasure.

Jhenny: What is your favourite way to relax?
WAWA: The advantage in music is that it is a source of relaxation and it is my source of relaxation.

Jhenny: Do you ever take a taxi?
WAWA: Rarely, because in each region or city where I go, we rent a car for ease of our transport. But when I take one, I'm always well-disguised so that even the driver doesn't recognise me.

Jhenny: What is your favourite breakfast?
WAWA: Usually, it's fried egg, tea and fruits of the season.

What is your strongest life experience?
WAWA: It is the disappearance of my music teacher, the one who introduced me to the music "dr JB" and the death of my father also traumatised me.

Jhenny: What is the thing that irritates you the most in people?
WAWA: It is the lie and the deception, I can not stand it, when I work, I keep my seriousness and my professionalism and I wait for people who connect with me in the same way.

Jhenny: What does your normal day look like?
WAWA: My normal day is to wake up around noon after a night of performance and to think about the set-up, preparation and rehearsal of the next show, for me a normal day means a day where I play music.

Jhenny: What is your worst habit?
WAWA: I am someone very calm, but also easily irritable.

Jhenny: What are your short and long term plans?
WAWA: My project since a few years is to work every year with a new foreign artist, there was a great featuring that I made with Diamond Platnumz this year and we plan to work with Konshens the Jamaican artist next year. We do not stop doing something better and again. In the long run, God willing, I will never give up creating pleasure for my fans with this talent he gave me, and make no mistake, I will stay focused on this job that I love.

Jhenny: What is your best travel memory?
WAWA: When we go to Mayotte, it's a small island, but when we organise shows it's always full and in addition we organise more than 25 performances in a month, but people are more and more numerous and it touches me a lot, because if people come back it's because they really love me, it's because they're really happy with our work.

Jhenny: What is your best encounter with other artists?
WAWA: Young artists like Ngiah Tax, Basta Lion, Big MJ, Liko Kininike. For the older generations, I love artists who are often in contact with me like Din Rotsaka, Tianjama, Ninie Doniah.

Jhenny: If you win the lottery, what are you going to do or buy?
WAWA: I will create a big park for children, that's what's missing on Nosy Be, and I would call it "WAWA park" as wawa is a nickname that we often give to the baby, a park for children is better suited to my name WAWA.

Jhenny: What is your approach towards your fans?
WAWA: With my fans I'm always ready to please them, for me my fans must always be satisfied. Even during my performances if a fan asks me to sing a song from my old albums, I will do it even if it's not part of our program, that's how I'm ready to serve my fans.

Jhenny: What do you like in this job? And what don't you like?
WAWA: I love my work, thanks to that, I can feed my family, and especially the music connects me with the world. I do not do politics, but where I go, I'm received cordially even abroad when I produce. People come in large numbers. Thanks to this job, wherever I go I am well-received. The negative side of the work is the lack of sleep that usually causes frustration and nervousness. I think that even if it's a job/pleasure, always take a day off.

Jhenny: Tell us about your latest strategy?
WAWA: We stopped producing albums, we made only a few singles, for example three singles a year, because with the technology the VCD and the DVDs are not really in demand anymore, it's YouTube and Facebook that is working now.

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WAWA was interviewed in Sambava by Jhenny RAZAFIMALALA in September 2019. Jhenny is an occasional contributor on MadaCamp. For further information, contact via facebook.com/Jhenny.Emery or email jhenny@madacamp.com.

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