Music of Garambura

Karam Hy, one of Garambura's most internationally renowned musicians, at the Fête de la lumière, Ainde, Mabifia, in 2015.

The music of Garambura has, over its years of development and history, come to encompass a wide range of genres, styles, motifs and art forms while utilising a myriad of cultural influences, both domestically and from abroad. Garambura has Bahia's largest music industry and sound recording industry by market capital, and is home to some of Bahia's most illustrious music festivals and studios. Major Bahian labels such as Sebaka and Courtet–Yucunou Company are headquartered in Mambiza, a city renowned for its musical diversity.

Garamburan music can be categorised in a number of genres, including electronic, folk, hip hop, jazz, pop, R&B, rock and soul, as well as hundreds of subgenres that encaptulate the country's cultural diversity. Many native genres, such as coupé-décalé, gondaphonics, gqom, kizomba, kwaito, makossa, mbaqanga, ndombolo, Nyikaitsva blues and semba take significant influence from native musical traditions, often incorporating northern musical influences into traditional Bahian ritualistic music.

Culturally, music from Garambura has had a significant impact on music in Bahia as well as other global music genres. Baiabeat was partially pioneered in Mambiza, and is now popular across Euclea and the Asterias. Diasporic music is popular across the Euclean Community, particularly in Gaullica. Large cultural exchanges have taken place between the countries, influenced by both native and Chennois populations. Garambura has participated in the Euclovision Song Contest since 1999.

Pop

Djeli pop

Main article: Djeli pop

Rock music

Nyikaitsva blues

Kaswatu Kabili's Tarhatazed, released in 2008, is a seminal piece of Nyikaitsva blues.

Nyikaitsva blues takes its name from the mountain range close to where its stylistic background originates. Nyikaitsva blues refers to a select style of blues music originating from rural communities that live near the mountains or in the north of the country. It is often characterised by smooth, slick guitar and droning, repetitive and often psychedelic vocals. Nyikaitsva blues share incredible similar origins and sounds to Boual blues, native to the peoples of the Boual ka Bifie in Mabifia and Yemet.

The genre's birth was in the 1980s, and initially it was popular amongst Shuku and Njinji peoples, who adopted it into their own musical traditions. Due to linguistic and cultural isolation, Shuku Nyikaitsva is often critically considered to be the purest form of Nyikaitsva blues, having remained relatively untouched by northern and domestic musical trends. Chewa Nyikaitsva is by far the most commercially successful variant, having experienced a cultural boom in the mid-2000s as Euclean and Asterian producers oversaw the creation and promotion of some of Nyikaitsva's most well-known artists, including Kaswatu Kabili and Komaniso. Kabili's use of autotune on the electric guitar is often viewed as revolutionary for the genre.

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Tourniquet, Garambura's most commercially successful punk band.

Punk rock

When punk rock began to become popular in Estmere and Gaullica, the first punk rock bands began to emerge amongst Chennois bands who regularly travelled between Gaullica and Garambura. Punkesque vocals had been pioneered independently by Chloe Kolisi and her spat of popularity as one of the faces of djeli pop in the 1970s, but punk as a genre was influenced almost entirely by its Euclean counterparts. As such, punk in Garambura has often been criticised for its disproportionately white makeup, a trend that has continued into the modern day.

Popular punk bands in Garambura include Izono, LMDTY and Tourniquet.

Euclovision Song Contest

Main article: Euclovision Song Contest

Garambura has participated in the Euclovision Song Contest since its addition in 1999, winning once in 2006. Financial difficulties caused the ensuing contest to be held as a joint production between Garambura and Gaullica in Verlois.

Year	Song	Artist	Points	Place
1999	Temps génial	Lifa Khuyameni	39	26th
2000	Dans un monde réel	Fallou Mogotsi	63	20th
2001	Cocorico	Karame Hy	88	9th
2002	Bonde	Musafare Isheanasu Kumbula Roméo Mazet	30	28th
2003	Bonjour, mon ami	Zvinomwe	150	2nd
2004	Atudée	Clotaire Jobé	77	13th
2005	Ntawha	Ukuvuselelwa kweNtlalo	35	23rd
2006	Amidinine	Komaniso	168	1st
2007	État de salut	Mustafa Khosi	72	19th
2008	Coulibaly	Gédéon and Ivoire	59	22nd
2009	Margarita	À cheval	46	24th
2010	Frère	Rossi Isheanasu Kumbula	77	17th
2011	Flamme froide	Thandiwe Siwele	51	21st
2012	Guns of Bouley / Armes de Boulée	Bruno Souro	102	8th
2013	Suffisant	Célèbre blasée	74	16th
2014