Inna Modja

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Mali

Active from

1984-05-19

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

29,426

Total plays

264,487

The 36-year-old Malian is a rising star on France’s music scene with titles like “Let’s Go to Bamako”, that might be nostalgic tunes celebrating Mali’s capital, but that sound more like Britney Spears or Christina Aguilera than the music of Modja’s compatriots Salif Keita and Rokia Traore. “I’m what I call ‘rock ‘n’ love’”, she tells Reuters Africa Journal when asked how she herself would categorize her music. “It’s not rock ‘n’ roll because I don’t go silly drinking or taking drugs <a href="ht

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Autophagy regulates lipid metabolism

   · 2009 · cited 3,579x

2. Gut Microbiota in Health and Disease

   · 2010 · cited 3,460x

3. Twist, a Master Regulator of Morphogenesis, Plays an Essential Role in Tumor Metastasis

   · 2004 · cited 3,152x

4. The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

   · 2009 · cited 2,592x

5. The <i>Chlamydomonas</i> Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

   · 2007 · cited 2,369x

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Quotes

• “Growing up in the Sahel, I witnessed the land degradation caused by a changing climate, and saw how women and girls were disproportionately suffering the consequences”
• “I quickly realized you cannot dissociate women and girls’ rights from climate change activism”
• “Art—be it music, films or paintings—is a powerful tool to unite people and create global movements”
• “I have used my music to support initiatives such as the Great Green Wall, and it has proved very effective”
• “Keep going women and girls.Stand up for yourself.You have earned the right to own and to work,the right to be independent and make your own”
• “You have the right to Education and the right to equality.”

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