Qui est Ted Beaubrun ?

Ted G. Beaubrun est né à Ouanaminthe le 29 juin 1980, Haïti et issu d’une famille parmi les plus prestigieuses musicalement et socialement engagée de l’île. Il est le petit-ﬁls de Théodore Beaubrun, l’un des premiers tambourineurs de renom en Haïti et le ﬁls de Théodore Beaubrun Jr. dit Lòlò et de Mimerose dit Manzè, fondateurs du groupe Boukman Eksperyans créé dans les années 70 et à l’origine de la musique « racine »*.  Naturellement doué, Ted écrit sa première composition à l’âge de 6 ans. Autodidacte et talentueux percussionniste, il maîtrise plusieurs rythmes du vodou haïtien au tambour et sa virtuosité lui vaut de rejoindre la formation de ses parents à 12 ans et d’accompagner Boukman Eksperyans lors de tournées internationales. Ted s’enrichit musicalement et collabore aux sessions d’enregistrement et aux vidéoclips, révélant ses aptitudes d’arrangeur et de producteur et devient l’arrangeur principal de Boukman Eksperyans en 2008. Installé à Genève où il a effectué ses études d’ingénierie HES, la musique est restée sa vocation et l’a conduit à réaliser plusieurs albums comme producteur, à animer des stages et à composer la musique de ﬁlms.

Son style musical ? Le Vodou Pop !

Imprégné de sa culture et élevé dans la musique, Ted amène une nouvelle sonorité world, un son contemporain, voire avant-gardiste et innovateur, ralliant les rythmes du milieu rural d’Haïti tirés du vodou, à la modernité pop et urbaine, créant ainsi le «Vodou Pop». Ted s’inspire aussi des valeurs paysannes et marque ainsi son attachement et son respect à cette population qui est l’âme conservatrice des rythmes et des sons hérités de toutes les inﬂuences africaines du temps de l’esclavage. Musicien accompli, compositeur de ses mélodies, Ted chante de sa voix vodou, où le sacré du monde paysan s’invite, en s’accompagnant lui-même parfois au piano qu’il dose avec soin au tambour. Tout au long de son identité nouvelle, sans renier pourtant l’héritage culturel et musical de Boukman Eksperyans, Ted s’est créé son propre univers musical et a conquis un public grâce à sa musicalité et son charisme naturels, qui l’ont amené à jouer sur les prestigieuses scènes de grandes villes, telles Montreux, Cully, Winterthur, Zürich, Bonneville, Montréal, etc.


“Speaker-bangin’ before all else” (XLR8R) with “some of the smartest ears in the game” (Chicago Reader), “few can make a room explode like Maga Bo” (Flavorpill). A purveyor of “international sonic weaponry and rhythm knowledge” (Rough Trade), the Rio de Janeiro-based DJ/producer is a veteran pioneer of global bass music, with 20+ years of dedicated experience searching out unheralded music bumping from speaker-boxes in the world’s grittiest corners, from Addis Ababa to Zanzibar. 

Maga Bo’s sophisticated approach to international sounds comes from in-person, on-site collaboration with other artists. He has worked on location in Morocco, India, Ethiopia, Senegal, Zanzibar, and South Africa, to name just a few, while delving into a whirlwind of local styles: chaâbi, asmari music, taraab, manganiyar folk music, masqanda, and mbalax. All instruments and vocals come straight from the source. His original riddims and recordings, enriched by the presence of live vocalists and percussion, and enhanced by the philosophies of hip-hop and dub, take the global bass DJ set to a new level, one driven by first-hand experience searching open-air markets instead of just searching the web. 

His current work explores the contours of Afro-Brazilian culture and includes collaborations with the brightest talents in Brazil’s vast musical landscape. An immigrant himself, Maga Bo put down roots in his adopted hometown of Rio -- a cultural melting pot like no other where he has produced baile funk MCs and played drums in his neighborhood samba school. Journeys to Brazil’s northeast region have resulted in recording sessions with unsung folklore heroes Grupo Bongar and Samba de Coco Raízes de Arcoverde. 

A globally in-demand performer, Maga Bo has graced stages from India to Ethiopia to Brazil, at major summer festivals across Europe, and on tour in North America and Australia. He has performed at WOMAD UK, WorldWide, Sydney Festival, WOMEX, Transmediale and Mundial. He’s collaborated with Buraka Som Sistema’s Kalaf, Max Normala aka Ninja of South African rap-rave outfit Die Antwood, Ethio-Jazz godfather Mulatu Astatke, Bollywood star Shilpa Rao, and Brazilian chart toppers BaianaSystem and BNegão, and released critically acclaimed remixes for Asian Dub Foundation, Batida, Bomba Estéreo, Poirier, Filastine, and Systema Solar. 

Maga Bo’s groundbreaking debut full-length album, Archipelagoes, was released on DJ /rupture's Soot Records in 2008 after recording sessions in Senegal, Tanzania, Morocco and South Africa with heavyweight local rappers and musicians. His second full-length, Quilombo do Futuro, landed at #1 on the iTunes Brazilian music chart and #1 on the Rhapsody world music album of the year. The album was lauded by the New York Times as “a cultural manifesto riding on rhythm” and by National Public Radio (NPR) as “defin[ing] a kind of virtual refuge for traditional culture, giving it a welcome place in the techy global music soundscape of the 21st century." 

His track, ”No Balanço da Canoa,” garnered over half a million views on Youtube and was featured in Grand Theft Auto V and the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. He’s released music on Jarring Effects, Tru-Thoughts, Ninja Tune, Sound Way, ZZK, Cumbancha and many others. 

He currently releases confrontational, bass-heavy digital roots music from all over Brazil on Kaxambu Records and is an integrant of the live tropical-electro soundsystem band, Sociedade Recreativa. 

Having performed and worked in over 50 countries, Maga Bo walks the walk of the real globalization. Music is the weapon in a world of cultural appropriation, wide-spread poverty and mass migrations. 

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