Excluded from the 2024 beach festival organized by Maroc Telecom on the beaches of M’diq, Al Hoceima, Martil, Tangier, Saïdia and Nador, many Moroccan artists denounce and shout their fed-upness.
Fatima Zahra Laarousi is dejected. The singer is trying to understand why she was excluded from the beach festival this year when she almost died during her participation in one edition. While she was going to a show in Martil, a truck hit her, leaving her bedridden in a clinic for several days to receive treatment. “70% of the big festivals, such as Mawazine, Musiques Spirituelles (Fez), and those held in Tafraout, Rabat, Ifrane, and Taroudant, I have already given concerts there, but this year was exceptional, because I did not sing on any of their stages,” she said in surprise to Madar21. Chaimae Abdelaziz is annoyed by the fact that Maroc Telecom’s tours have highlighted the same artists without including a large number of singers. Which is “incomprehensible” to her. She does not hesitate to directly address her criticisms to its owner Abdeslam Ahizoune.
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Other Moroccan artists have denounced the greed of festival organizers to take the singer’s fee in exchange for registering his name in one of the summer events. There are brokers who take 70% of the artist’s fee in exchange for registering his name in one of the summer festivals, denounced Abdelali El Ghaoui on social networks. His colleague Hajar Adnane republished El Ghaoui’s statement to confirm the problems that she and other singers denounce. They complain of being excluded from artistic evenings and festivals.
