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Four veteran artists from La Digue have been added to the Seychelles Musicians’ Wall of Fame at the entrance of National Cultural Center. Four veteran artists from La Digue have been added to the Seychelles Musicians’ Wall of Fame at the entrance of National Cultural Center. Despily Williams, Jeanne Legge, Thomas Knowles, and Fernande Armantine have theirs stars engraved into the Musicians’ Wall of Fame. It was the Minister for Tourism and Culture, Alain St.Ange, who publicly announced the names of the four veterans from La Digue, and together with the Designated Minister, Vincent Merit...

Gou Kréol (1994) reflecting on the common Creole culture across the Indian Ocean. But séga also gave rise to a genre the Seychelles claims as its own – the moutya. A deeply communal performance of dance and music, the moutya’s characteristic flat goatskin drum is tuned by being warmed by the heat of the open fire around which the gathering takes place and is joined by improvised call and response singing. In recent years Victoria has been at the heart of efforts to preserve this sound of more than 200 years’ history. There were thousands of slaves on the Seychelles islands by the ear...