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Danyel Waro
“Danyel Waro” or Daniel Hoarau from the register of birth, is a musician, a singer and a poet of the Reunion. He was born on May, 10th of 1955 in Tampon. He is one of the main actors of the revival of the maloya in the island and its recognition in France.

As a very influent artist in the Reunion island, he is well-known with lots of local groups for the influence he had on the emergence of the traditional song. Groups like Baster or Ousanousava often invite him to participate to their concerts.

Biography
Danyel Waro was born in Trois Mares, a district of Tampon, in the Reunion island, where his father, ancient “day worker”, bought 3 hectares of land that he grew. His family lives in a hut where there is no running water, no electricity and who nearly lives in self-sufficiency. He is the fourth child of twelve brothers and sisters and works the land more than he plays music.

In his hard and austere life, the notion of pleasure does not have a place. Distractions are rare. The unique music he listens, it is through the transistor that he mostly uses to listen information. When he was 15, the young man discovered Georges Brassens thank to his sister’s disks. He admired the false misogynistic part of Brassens; he thought, on the contrary, that his idol was celebrating the woman. This taught him a vision of the woman, on the opposite of which handed him his father, who was often drunk and beat his mother. This, gave him the will to offer his passion for the words to the service of the Creole language. As all the Reunion island inhabitants of his generation, Danyel Waro did not grow listening maloya. This blues of the Indian Ocean, from African, Madagascar and Indian attachments, had practically disappeared. Unofficially forbidden, it survived in some families before being saved by the Reunion island Communist Party (RPC) really popular on the island and which was fighting for the autonomy of the French overseas territory.

Exploited, this traditional song inherited from times of slavery became the symbol of identity revindications. Sensitized to this fight by his father, fervent communist militant, the young man fell in love with the maloya when he attended, in 1970, Firmin Viry’s concert (of whom he was the trainee), organized by the local diary of the RPC, “Témoignages”. If he considers this music a political arm against the metropolitan power, it mostly offered him the opportunity to discover himself and to take totally conscience of his local identity.

On his own, he learnt the rhythm, started to make his proper percussions. On December, 27 of 1975, he did his first maloya concert with some young farming workers. After having being leader of a strike when he was in terminal class, his enrolment to do his military service, in metropole, in 1976, was accelerated because of his failure at baccalaureate. The young antimilitarist refused to wear the uniform. He knew the consequences of rebelliousness: 22 months of prison. In his cell in the detention center of Ecrouves he wrote his first texts in the Creole language which were published in 1978 below the title of “Romans ekri dans la zol an frans”.

In his texts, he shown a real will to write and to militate, that he enforced being opposed to the politic of Michel Debré during his stay in the Reunion island for electoral reasons. In his songs redacted when he was in jail, he especially denounced the work of BUMIDOM. This institution is, in this way, denounced in his songs “Gafourn” and “Batartisé”. In 1975-1976, back in the Reunion island, he participated to the Kabars that got maloya out of silence, shame and forgetfulness; a kind of music forbidden up to then influenced by slaves’ songs. During those years, he militated with the Reunion Island Communist Party from which he gave away in the 90’s. In 1998, in the moment of the regional elections, he was part of Nasvon réyoné dobout, electoral list that obtained 0,77% of the votes. As he does not limit himself to the maloya music, he also recorded a jazz disk with Olivier Ker Ourio. In 2006, Danyel Waro participated to the Africolor Festival for the creation of Michto maloya with the musician Titi Robin. He appeared on the album Pays Sauvage of Emily Loizeau in which he performed “Dis Moi que tu ne pleures pas”.

In 2002 and 2011, he was part of the Mawazine festival in Rabat, Morocco. As a point of interest, we can notice that Danyel Waro took part 9 times in the “Diagonale des Fous” (Grand Raid of the Reunion Island), twice with flip-flops.

Son of a little plantation owner, he stays loyal to his traditional acoustic from which on he is the representative well-known in the entire island. Musician and poet, he knows how to make sing the Creole with emotions without equal.

Discography
•	Gafourn, 1987 •	Batarsité, 1994 •	Foutan Fonnker, 1999 •	Bwarouz, 2002 •	Somminkér, 2003 (with Olivier Ker Ourio) •	Rest’la Maloya, in tribute to Alain Peters, 2003 (with Loy Ehrlich, Joël Gonthier, René Lacaille, Bernard Marka, Tikok Vellaye and Danyèl Waro) •	Grin n syel, 2006 •	Aou Amwin, 201010 •	Kabar, 2013 •	Monmon, 2017

Publications
•	Romans ékri dans la zol en Frans, 1978, Les Chemins de la Liberté. •	Gafourn, 1987, Graphica-Sobatkoz. •	Démavouz la vi, 1996, Grand Océan. Republication: France, K’A / Grand Océan, 2008.

Filmography
Danyèl Waro, fier bâtard, 2002, Author/Director : Hoarau (Thierry) / Production / Diffusion : Imago productions, RFO Réunion.

Rewards
In 2010, Danyel Waro won a WOMEX Award, reward given by the professionals of music from all around the world. A pride and a consecration for this maloya musician and poete, who received his reward on October, 31th 2010 in Copenhagen, during the WOMEX (World Music Expo), one of the biggest meetings about music from all around the world.

Collaborations
•	Titi Robin •	A Filetta •	Emily Loizeau •	Tumi and the Volume for the album Pick a Dream, la onzième piste (Play Nice) has a hidden song in which Danyel Waro songs with Tumi. The collaboration seems to continue because in the last album of the singer “Aou Amwin », we can hear Tumi in the song “Mandela”. •	La Tordue in the song Le Pétrin from the album Champ libre.