FATIA

Fatia leds an idiosyncratic musical style she baptised ‘Fatia music’: a mixture of ethnic live instruments, hypnotic North African and western rhythms and sounds, and different types of house music (from deep and melodic house to uplifting tech and tribal). Born in Belgium, she spent 3 months every summer holiday with her family in Morocco until the age of 14, travelling back and forth between Marakkech and Telouet (situated in the High Atlas Mountains) and got to know the local culture and traditions very well. From an early age Fatia wanted to perform, beating on her mother’s pots and pans with wooden spoons, designing her own stage outfits and inventing her own little choreographies. At the age of 13 she started clubbing, chaperoned by her mother. Three years later she