Sega is the typical
dance and music from Mauritius. Sega is originated from
Africa and Madagascar.
The Sega comes from the slavery time
where the slaves took what they had at this time which could
be used as instruments to make music. It was their only
distraction at this period.
Nowadays there are
different instruments used to play Sega music, but the
traditional instruments are the ravanne, the maravanne, a
goat skin drum and the triangle.
Usually in the past
at the slavery time, the men used to sing the Sega and the
women used to dance, nowadays both men and women sing the
Sega.
In the last few
years there has a lot of change in Mauritian music there is
only Sega,
there has been a fusion of Sega and reggae which
is now known as seggae.
Seggae became well known mainly by
Kaya and his group Racinetatane.
But Kaya
unfortunately died from a still unexplained death while in
police custody in 1999.
He was arrested for allegedly
smoking a joint in public.
Some other well
known Sega singers are Cassiya, Lebrasse, TiFrère and Marie
José Clency.
Sega is a type
music when you listen, you just want to stand up and dance
and it is very entertaining.
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