Ahmed Soultan

Born in Morocco, in a village of the region of Souss, Ahmed Soultan spent his youth in France, punctuated with regular way-back to his country of origin, where he soaked himself in the surf-culture, taking up, each time again with his roots, and deciding, at last, to join his native Morocco for good. Showing first little interest for music, his open-mindedness and curiosity still pushed him to take some concords out of guitar, borrowed by a chance encounter. But, it's in 1997 that his artistic instinct asserts itself : time when Ahmed Soultan crosses again the path of two old friends, once met at at school, and forming today the French banc name « Afrodiziac ». With them, he will learn the weels of the business , discovering that way, whats going on underneath it all : this encounter will prove to be decisive and will mark a radical turning point in his artistic conception. Though he is not a commonly cammed « committed artist », Ahmed Soultan still tries to arouse people consciousness, advocating, then, tolerance. But, his album tends to be more than a simple claim, it is the outcome of an innovating quest, giving birth to what Ahmed Soultan takes pleasure in calling « Arabic Urban Music ». This subtle mixture of influences dares Arabic texts put on stirring mid-tempos, offering, that way, very new horizons to Moroccan Music.