Alain Péters: Poet of Maloya
Rediscovering Réunion's troubled folk chansonnier
Located 422 miles east of Madagascar in the Indian ocean, Réunion marks the southernmost part of Europe. To this day, the small island is a department of France.
Alain Péters was one of the island’s finest singer-songwriters.
He played an experimental version of maloya, a local style of folk music. On the image above, he’s holding his trademark takamba, a…
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