NATACHA ATLAS
Genres: Jazz Related Electronica, Hip-Hop, World Fusion, Jazz Related Improv, Composition • Belgium

A member of Transglobal Underground, now an acclaimed solo artist, combining dance music with Arabic influences. Belgian-born singer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and classical belly dancer Natacha Atlas is possessed of a throaty, expressive alto and offers a multilingual vocal approach to the fusion of Arabic and South Asian musics with Western styles, from electronica to pop to jazz standards. As a solo artist and in well-documented collaborations with more than 100 others (Peter Gabriel, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Belinda Carlisle among them), her music was born from her family's heritage of Egyptian, Palestinian, Moroccan, and Sephardic ethnicities. Her intensely rhythmic vocal style was heard outside Europe first with Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart on the hit album Rising Above Bedlam in 1991. She served as lead vocalist and belly dancer with world fusion electro band Transglobal Underground, starting with their dancefloor hit single "Temple Head." She is a relentless experimenter. read more...