Rising Star Marwa Loud Embraces Moroccan Roots, Prepares for Album Debut

"I love Morocco, I go there often, especially since all my sisters and my mother have recently moved to Marrakech. They got tired of France, they wanted sunshine. Marrakech, that’s me, I’m comfortable nowhere else. It’s warm, there’s a good atmosphere, the people are nice and welcoming, it’s always sunny, you find everything and you lack for nothing." This is how Marwa Loud, the pure talent of urban music who revealed herself to the musical world with "Temps perdu", a title that will have really launched her career, recording more than a million views in less than three days on YouTube.

Marwa Loud defines herself as "a woman who has managed to turn her dream into reality". Born into a modest and provincial family, the young woman admits to never having had a taste for grandeur. Marwa grew up in a family atmosphere lulled by music. "Music was very present at home, listening to the sweet voice of my mother singing the classics of Oum Khaltoum and lulled by more modern sounds that my sisters listened to," she confides.

Her parents having divorced early on (she was 4 years old), Marwa and her sisters had to be raised by their mother. The young singer, who admits to having lacked nothing despite their separation, will have found her greatest consolation in music, but also within this small feminist world (her mother, her sisters) from which she inherited certain virtues and gained confidence. "Besides the musical environment, having been raised in this feminine milieu has necessarily forged a certain feminism in me, and this need for independence and autonomy," says the singer serenely.

Marwa’s music is meant to reflect all this lived experience that has not always been without difficulty. Today, the young woman who had dropped out of school for music at the age of 16 at the time, accumulating odd jobs to finance her productions, has matured. She is now 22 years old and considers herself "happy despite the ups and downs. I’m an optimist and I’m grateful for what God offers me," confesses this musical pearl whose first album scheduled for June 14 is already destined for a bright future.