Artist
Khansa Batma likes to be carried away by music, surrounded by her books and
her five cats. In her
latest album, approached with more maturity and confidence in herself, the
singer confides to have left her usual environment "to watch what is going
on around. It is a more
universal album. Love, women,
and humanistic themes inspired me". Would talent be transmitted as a
legacy? This is what
her success as an author, composer and performer might suggest. Yet nothing was granted to the Moroccan rocker who is an independent and
solitary person. The daughter
of Mohamed Batma and niece of Larbi Batma, charismatic musicians, grew up in the
Hay Mohammadi district in Casablanca, in an activist and artist family: "Although
I grew up surrounded by music, it was very hard for me to make myself heard, first
as a young adult, since I was only nineteen when I started, then as a woman and
finally as a "daughter of someone". The pressure
is immense, doubt assailed Khansa. Her mother
was worried, her father supported her, her brother Tarik accompanied her. But she had no choice since music flows in her veins: "This is my way
of expressing my being and my ideas. At one point
in her life, she felt a need for a break: "I had to get rid of the family
shackles and music. I wanted to
assert myself in another area. Modeling gave
her the opportunity to experience another experience. She moved to Turkey where she stayed for five years. She produced original chronicles for a TV show: "I had already had
experience with 2M TV in Morocco, with the “Entr'Act” TV program by Nadia
Larguet. But Khansa
Batma ended up returning to Morocco, due to her love for music that never left
her and because of the public she loves.