Malika Tirolien

Malika Tirolien (born 26 June 1983) is a Guadeloupean-Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist. She sang on the Grammy Award winning album Family Dinner – Volume 1 by Snarky Puppy. She is based in Montreal.

Biography Malika Tirolien was born in Marie-Galante, Guadeloupe, and grew up in an artistic environment. Her grandmother played the piano, her grandfather was the poet Guy Tirolien and her father, a history teacher, was a self-taught multi-instrumentalist. Tirolien showed interest for music and singing at a very young age; noticing this, her parents signed her up for piano lessons. As a teenager she was already very involved with singing and cites Michael Jackson as one of her biggest influences at the time. With other members of the collective, Tirolien formed the band Groundfood.

Between 2012 and 2013, Tirolien sang the lead role in Cirque du Soleil's show La Nouba in Orlando, Florida.

In October 2016, Tirolien went on an Asian tour that included presentations in China (Beijing) and India (Delhi, Pune, Bangalore and Calcutta). The tour extended to the Americas (Canada, United States, French West Indies, and Brazil).

In 2015, Michael League invited Tirolien to become the lead singer of a new group, Bokanté ("Exchange", in Guadeloupean Creole). Their debut album Strange Circles was released in June 2017, and the band went on a European tour in the following month. They collaborated with the Metropole Orkest on their second album What Heat, which was released in September 2018 and was nominated for Best World Music Album in the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.

Discography With Groundfood MixTape Volume 1 (October 2010) MixTape Volume 2 – Live at Nectar's (March 2013) Chew Before You Swallow (May 2014)

With Bokanté Jou Kè Ouvè (single, January 2017) Vox Sambou – Dyasporafriken (April 2013) Snarky Puppy – Family Dinner – Volume 1 (September 2013) Elephant Stone – The Three Poisons (October 2014) Kenyon – Le Choix Des Armes (November 2015) Elephant Stone – Ship of Fools (September 2016)