History of Music in Seychelles

The Seychelles is a sovereign island group in the Indian Ocean, previously which is a colony of both Britain and France which has a unique type of music. Traditional music joins multiple influences in a syncretic design which include polka, English contredanse and mazurka, French traditional and pop, sega from Mauritius and Reunion, taarab, zouk, soukous moutya and other pan-African genres of Polynesian, Arcadian and Indian music. A difficult type of drumming music is known as Kanmtole, which is renowned along with mixtures of Sega and Reggae known as Seggae and mixtures of Moutya and Reggae is known as Mouggae, as is Montea, a combination of indigenous traditional rhythms with Kenyan benga established by Patrick Victor. Jean Marc Volcy is another popular Seychellois artist who has introduced the current touch of the traditional music. He has several albums which include Sove Lavi.

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The increase of Seychelles music has since seen the changes of a mixture of current reggae and mainstream, international renowned music, such artist as Mercenary or Mersener.