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Olga del Madagascar Olga del Madagascar during her concert at Valprato Soana, within the Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso

Olga del Madagascar is an environmentalist and singer-songwriter from Madagascar who sings in his native tongue, Malagasy, beside Italian and French. Olga is particularly active in combating Madagascar deforestation, habitat alteration, and traditions losses. Olga is native to North-East Madagascar, where beautiful rain forests still survive. Since her childhood she lived in close contact with nature, in particular with the fantastic endemic animals and plants of one of the most beautiful and most fascinating places in the world, inhabited by a wonderful people with mysterious origins. Unfortunately, Madagascar is also an island with many ecological problems, where the rate of deforestation is today among the highest in the World, with great suffering for biodiversity and the survival of people. When Olga understood this dramatic situation she became an ethno-environmentalist singer: with her voice she tells today about the beauty of her country and tells her people that it is necessary to protect nature. It is in fact his belief that non-traditional methods of communication are often particularly effective. Olga collaborates with various institutions and associations for the protection of nature, including bio-parks, natural history museums, environmental groups, grassroots associations and passionate naturalists, many of whom support the creation and dissemination of her albums. Olga creates her songs together with her brother R.J dit 13-1. The sounds of his songs are expressed in the rhythms of the salegy, antsa, basesa and satrahagna traditions - which evoke the magical atmosphere of Madagascar and derive from the polyphonic animistic songs that often accompany the ceremonies of possession of the Malagasy culture, named tromba. Olga has participated in various initiatives. She actively contributed to the organization and realization of the Giornate del Madagascar and participated in several Conference Days of the Anglo-Malagasy Society in London. Olga was also a literary author and twice participated in the Concorso Letterario Nazionale Lingua Madre. Discography

Bois de rose (2012) - MOS Pro

Ma Nature (2014) - MOS Pro

Le Monde Entier (2019) - MOS Pro Collaborations

Olga collaborated with many organisations as follows:

WWF Italia, Centre Valbio Ranomafana, ICTE Madagascar, GERP, ACSAM2, Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group, L'homme et l'environnement, MUSE Museo di Scienze, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino, Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia, Bioparc, Parco Natura Viva, Saint Louis Zoo, Bioparco ZOOM, Italian Gekko Association, AIM, Anglo Malagasy Society, Gialuma onlus, Bradt Travel Guides, Alefamusic, Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso.