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= Olga del Madagascar = Olga is an environmentalist and singer-songwriter from Madagascar who exhibits in her native language, Malagasy, beside Italian and French. Olga is particularly active in combating through her songs and talks Madagascar deforestation, habitat alteration, and traditions losses. She's native to North-East Madagascar, where beautiful rainforests still survive. Since her childhood Olga 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, which is inhabited by a wonderful people with mysterious origins. Unfortunately, Madagascar is also an island with many ecological problems, and where the rate of deforestation is among the highest in the World, with great sufference for biodiversity and the survival of local populations. When Olga understood this dramatic situation she became an ethno-environmentalist singer: with her voice she sings today about the beauty of her country and tells her people that it is necessary to protect nature. In fact, it is her belief that non-traditional methods of communication are often effective. For this, 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 her songs are expressed in the rhythms of 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.

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: ICTE Madagascar, GERP, ACSAM2, Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group, WWF Italia, Centre Valbio RanomafanaL'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. She participated to various initiates, and 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.