Olivier Araste, more often known as Lindigo, grew up with maloya since his early childhood. At the age of 15, he decided to embark on this passion professionally and today he is a singer at the head of the group LINDIGO. For him, maloya is life, a gift from our ancestors and it is important to preserve it, to adapt it to today’s times.
Maloya is herbal tea!
Olivier evolves with his Maloya “Maloya pou moin lé in herbal tea, when it’s not going well Maloya lé there, when it’s also going maloya lé there![…] Or sing, or long live ali, or laugh ali, or plead ali, or angry ali, or say cek nena su lé kèr. Mi see it like that, mi long live ali how mi lé.”
Varied opportunities
I’ve been living my passion for 15 years, the misik! We travel, we do a good few concerts, we do a good few exchanges, a good few tours. And mi hope va tien bo encore, give anou gayar strength!
Music is everywhere”La Rényon nena all, la misik when lé dan out corp, lé dan out l’âme, ben li lé there. Sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter, you have to live with it. Zordi na cyclone, tomorrow nena good weather, well lé a bit the same I must or win long live together. After when the in or it is the love, if or put the love in it i bring aou far. Whether or not to put love in a given moment or will find it hard. […] Any business must be fine !”
The sharing of culture
The singer not only likes to share his culture, but also to discover new ones, and his various trips allow him to accomplish these actions “Mwin in the misik when mi travels mi sava discovers culture from another country, from other domoun, mi brings my culture ek mwin, bana i share your culture with mwin and automatically i influence amwin mi try to put in my misik to see kosa i give and mi like it!“
A carry willow LINDIGO !
“Each country mi sava mi brings a little spice with mwin and mi makes my LINDIGO carry, my LINDIGO sauce. If or ask amwin zingredient mi win not say aou kossa i lé, but here mi try to make my carry […] Thanks to the musicians that mi lé with also, lé passionate, lé committed it’s thanks to that too, otherwise I don’t win doing all that there“
A message for all of us
“Vive zot maloya dan la caz, dan zot family after i come all alone that. Mi sa not said a moun went maloya, no, a moment ali even, i call ali that. Maloya lé a nou, it’s a gift to our ancestor. The suffered for that, let’s not put ali in a corner let the dust rise on it, long live ali, try to preserve as we win !”
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