NEWS PRESS MEDIA AND REVIEWS

**** 4 stars, Kulturtippp 

“Fely Tchaco packs the traditional chants and languages of their homeland, Côte d’Ivoire, into sharp beats.” 

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https://www.kultur-tipp.ch/artikel/artikeldetail/cd-tipp-world-fely-tchaco/

 

Songlines Issue #169 

“Diving deep into themes of empowerment and feminism… This fifth album by Tchaco, San Francisco-based and hailing from Mande-related Gouro people of southern Ivory Coast, has personal and political currency, with tracks telling of Tchaco’s journey as singer, dancer, mother and storyteller – and the humanitarian crisis the world is facing… ‘Yita’ is a heartfelt Gouro-language ode to our commonality, a sentiment similarly expressed on tracks including ‘Tile Tete’, sung in French…there’s palpable joy in the album’s mix of Afrobeat, Afro-pop and electronics…” 

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https://www.songlines.co.uk/review/yita-deep-water

  

 JazzQuad 

“Miriam Makeba - Angelique Kidjo – Fely Tchaco? Each generation nominates a vocalist who becomes for him a symbol of African music. Singer, songwriter, designer and visual artist Fely Tchaco has all the skills to become one. Each generation nominates a vocalist who becomes for him a symbol of African music. Singer, songwriter, designer and visual artist Fely Tchaco has all the skills to become one. Like Angelique Kidjo, she is from West Africa, though not from Benin, but from Côte d'Ivoire. More than a worthy gift!” 

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https://jazzquad.ru/index.pl?act=PRODUCT&id=5826

 

Music Frames 

“With her energetic album, Yita, singer Fely Tchaco pays tribute to all those (African) migrants who lost their lives in the Mediterranean in search of a better life… Deep Water is an excellent album by multi-talented Fely Tchaco of which we will hear a lot more! 

Her voice evokes memory of Angelique Kidjo . A singer from Benin who became famous in the Netherlands with her CD Ayé (1994) and her collaboration with the Dutch jazz pianist Jasper van 't Hof , among others. Deep Water is an excellent album by a wonderful multi-talented musician Fely Tchaco, which you will keep in mind!” 

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https://www.musicframes.nl/2021/06/deep-water-of-fely-tchaco/

 

Moors Magazine

 “The album is a positive celebration of cultural diversity and black joy at the same time, as Fely Tchaco powerfully shows the listener that there are also immigrants who triumph. Peace, love, hope, they seem worn out concepts, but here they shine again. Fely sings in her own language, Gouro as well as in Beté, French and English, and that only makes the message more universal. The same goes for the music, which combines West African rhythms with jazz, afro-pop and more. Traditional and modern go hand in hand. Great picture.” 

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https://www.moorsmagazine.com/muziek/wereldmuziek/fely-tchaco-yita/

  

World Listening Post 

“Yita (Deep Water), the title track of Fely Tchaco’s fifth album, is a soaring elegy for migrants who never reached their destination and a hymn of hope for those seeking new shores… Yita is not only an outstanding album but also an inspired map of space, time and sound.” 

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https://worldlisteningpost.com/2021/05/26/fely-tchaco-yita-deep-water/

 

 

 

SOURCE THE RESONANCE

The Outerglobe - 11 March 2021 (Fely Tchaco) interviewed by Debbie Golt

Fely comes on around 15mn into the show.

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SOURCE BBC RADIO

SOURCE BBC RADIO WORLD SERVICES 

Focus on Africa - Ivorian Singer-Songwriter Fely Tchaco on new album - BBC Sounds. 

interview by Jenny Horrocks - Presenter Bola Mosuro 

Interview starts at 19:20 

Click here to listen to the Interview.

 

Era Jazzu 

“Fely Tchaco - an exotic singer from the Ivory Coast, drawing on her own life experience and folk wisdom, embodies a new generation of artists who, while remaining attached to their African heritage, at the same time maintain a modern outlook on the "new" world around them…"Yita" is an artistic synthesis of music and the artist's creativity. Along with a large dose of African melody, style and rhythm, the recordings contain an interesting association with popular music, a bit of new wave and even the obvious hit of her songs. Fely Tchaco sings in many languages: English, French and also in her native Gouro , emphasizing cultural origins and "roots" and referring to its cultural tradition from the exotic regions of Gbegbe, Gaou Alloukou and Zaouli.” 

Click on link for full review: 
https://jazz.pl/fely-tchaco-yita-fely-music-production/

 

Rootstime

 “In a mix of pop, (afro) -jazz, funk and even a bit of techno, sung in several languages from her native country, as well as French and English, Fely shares her vision of contemporary affairs in a large part of the world… The album exudes an enormous positivity and although it is both cosmopolitan in terms of design and design, as well as tight and strict in terms of message where it belongs… You don't come across something like this too often… more than worth listening to…”  

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https://rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEUW/2021/MA1/CD9.html

 

KPFA

KPFA Radio 94.1FM Interview with Walter Turner 03.08.21 - 7:00pm 

 Click here to listen to the interview. Interview by Andrew Gilbert, Mar 8  

 

Source KQED 

In the spring of 2016, Fely Tchaco joined guitarist Freddy Clarke’s Wobbly World band on a relief mission to Greece bringing medical aid to Syrian refugees. Born and raised in Ivory Coast, Tchaco had seen her fair share of hard times and poverty, but the trip changed her perspective on the way that tribulations are distributed around the world.  

In the United States, she’s always aware of “coming from a continent where everyone thinks there are the poorest countries,” she said in a recent conversation via Zoom. “But you see this can happen anywhere. These refugees had experienced terrible trauma, and some were so resilient. I was astonished by this little girl who was so talented playing my djembe.”  

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https://www.kqed.org/arts/13893553/from-ivory-coast-to-west-coast-fely-tchacos-musical-vision-defies-borders 

 

 

M-XCLOUD - PLAYLIST Radio 9 Oostzaan met "Studio-Globe",

Uitzending (1502) 10th March 2021 by "Studio-Globe"

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M-XCLOUD – PLAYLIST #323

One World Radio show #323 presented by Andy Rogers aired CAWE YOKO recently: 

Track starts at 29:00

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Tune in at UK's Stirling City Radio:

Aired #felytchaco 's music ‘Do Afe’ Sunday Feb 21st in second half of show. Show: Marion’s Folk Festival from 6pm:

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VIDEO PODCAST INTERVIEW

Interview by Serge Afeli on the Les Africains D'Amerique  

En 1998, alors qu’elle n’a que 22 ans Fely Tchaco devient une sensation musicale en Afrique subsaharienne avec une chanson d’amour intitulée « mon espoir ». Installée à San Francisco aux Etats-Unis depuis l'an 2000, elle fera le bonheur des mélomanes Américains épris de musique Africaine. Aujourd’hui, elle revient avec un tout nouvel album intitulé YITA où elle parle de l’immigration clandestine des Africains vers l’Europe, de justice sociale et de de brutalité policière envers les noirs aux Etats-Unis....

Press

This new record by Fely is heavily inspired by the trip she took in 2016 to the Syrian refugee camps... 

Source Roots Time:

https://rootstime.be/index.html?https://rootstime.be/CD%20REVIEUW/2021/MA1/CD9.html

 

It is no coincidence that this CD will be released on International Women's Day: singer and multi-talent (she is also a dancer and very strong in graphic arts) Fely Tchaco has her roots in Ivory Coast and therefore knows a thing or two about the position of the woman in today's world. In the seven years since we first heard from her, she herself has developed into a particularly strong woman, who, partly…

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FELY TCHACO - YITA 

Het is geen toeval dat deze CD uitkomt op de internationale vrouwendag: zangeres en multi-talent (ze is ok danseres en heel sterk in grafische kunsten) Fely Tchaco heeft haar roots in Ivoorkust en weet dus wel een en ander te vertellen over de positie van de vrouw in de wereld van vandaag. Zelf heeft ze zich in de zeven jaar sinds we voor het eerst van haar hoorden, ontpopt tot een bijzonder sterke vrouw, die mede door de kunst(en) waarin ze actief is, niet heel erg meer gevat kan worden door de mannelijke…

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Fély Tchaco : ‘’Yita’’, Un Cri Dans L’Océan 

Il est baptisé Yita et était prévu pour sortir il y a un an. Mais cet album, à cause de la pandémie de la Covid-19, a dû attendre 2021. Et c’est ce lundi 8 mars, journée internationale de la femme, que Fély Tchaco publie cette nouvelle production discographique, la 5ème de sa carrière. 

Les premières notes de la chanson sont lointaines et tristes, comme un cri dans la nuit. On se croirait en forêt profonde. Mais très vite, le mouvement des vagues vient rappeler qu’on est en plein milieu de l’océan. 

Yita…

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From Ivory Coast to West Coast, Fely Tchaco’s Musical Vision Defies Borders 

By Andrew Gilbert, Mar 8 

Source KQED

In the spring of 2016, Fely Tchaco joined guitarist Freddy Clarke’s Wobbly World band on a relief mission to Greece bringing medical aid to Syrian refugees. Born and raised in Ivory Coast, Tchaco had seen her fair share of hard times and poverty, but the trip changed her perspective on the way that tribulations are distributed around the world. 

In the United States, she’s always aware of “coming from a continent where everyone thinks there are the poorest countries,”…

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Fely Tchaco to present her Modern Ethnic Fashion Line as "Leye Tchaco" 

Founder of African Arts Academy, Leye Tchaco known as Fely Tchaco to present her new line Modern Ethnic Fashion during Fashion on the Square. Leye will showcase her line on july 27th at the Fashion on the Square at the prestigious Intercontinental Hotel 888 Howard Street San Francisco, CA. Fashion on the Square is one of by a area largest and longest running fashion show compared to New York Fashion week. You can purchase your ticket now at fashiononthesquare . Leye Tchaco's design has been published in the…

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Fely Tchaco Special Guest at the Point Of View 

From left to right: Zee, Corlia, Erika, Fely and Roxy during the shooting of the Point of View.

Photo by Harris.

Fely Tchaco was a special guest on Afrotainment for The Point Of View, a daly talk show hosted be four beautidul bright ladies, Erika Washington, Zee Mitchell, Corlia MacDonald, and Roxy Johnson. The tehme was Jealousy. Fely also had a one on one interview with Erika, talking about her music, art. To view and listen to fely's performance on the show, visit Afrotainment Dish Network , click on…

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Fely Tchaco Wins The Independent Music Awards 

Fely Tchaco Won The Independent Music Awards In The Song Category World Beat.

An independpent artist born and raised in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), now based in San Francisco, CA honors the traditional pop music of the Gouro culture, well known for their Zaouli mask dance and music. The forest rhythm in the Ivory coast has influenced America's modern pop unknowingly for a long time, now is a chance for people to discover the origin of Hip Pop, Rock, Reggae and Gospel music...

Stay tuned for her up and…

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