Inna modja biography

Inna Modja is a.
Inna Bocoum, also known as Inna Modja (born May 19, 1984), is a Malian-French female singer and model.
Inna Bocoum, also known as Inna Modja, is a Malian-French female singer and model.

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Inna Modja

Malian-French musical artist (born 1984)

Musical artist

Inna Bocoum, also known as Inna Modja (born May 19, 1984), is a Malian-French female singer^[2] and model. "Modja" means "bad, not good" in Fulfulde.^[3]^[4]

Childhood and adolescence

Born on May 19, 1984, in Bamako, Mali, in a Fula family, the sixth of seven children, Inna Bocoum owes her artist name to her mother, who gave her the nickname of Inna Modja, which means "Inna is bad" or "Inna is not good" in Fulfulde. Her mother tongue is Bambara.^[2] When she was six, her parents enrolled her in a choir. At home, her father encouraged her to progress by playing her some records he liked (artists such as Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Otis Redding, Sarah Vaughan). She was also influenced by her older siblings, who transitioned into Thrash Punk, '80/'90s Rap, Heavy Metal periods, in addition to Blues, Soul and Disco. As a teenager, she still alternated between Hard Rock and love songs. She regularly visited her neighbour, Salif Keita, who invites her to be part o

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Inna Bocoum, also known as Inna Modja, (born May 19, 1984) is a Malian-French female singer and model. 'Modja' means 'bad, not good' in Fulfulde.

Born on May 19, 1984 in Bamako, Mali, in a Fula family, the sixth of seven children, Inna Bocoumowes her artist name to her mother, who gave her the nickname of Inna Modja, which means 'Inna is bad' or 'Inna is not good' in Fulfulde. When she was six, her parents enrolled her in a choir. At home, her father encouraged her to progress by playing her some records he liked (artists such as Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald, Otis Redding, Sarah Vaughan). She was also influenced by her older siblings, who transitioned into Thrash Punk, 80/90's Rap, Heavy Metal periods, in addition to Blues, Soul and Disco. As a teenager, she still alternated between Hard Rock and love songs. She regularly visited her neighbour, Salif Keita, who invites her to be part of the Rail Band of Bamako, a group of swinging old men (Bossa Nova and Jazz), amongst whom he himself debuted.

She speaks against female genital mutilation, as she herself and her four sisters were

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Inna Modja

Musician and activist for social, gender, and climate justice

Malian-born Inna Modja is variously described as a musician, an actor, an

artist, a United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Land Ambassador, Chief Executive Officer of Code Green, and an entrepreneur in the Web3 space, dealing in one-off digital works of art to fund green and social projects. But at heart, she is an activist.

“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,” she says. “I quickly realized you cannot dissociate women and girls’ rights from climate change activism.” So, she took up both of these causes.

She started her musical career under the auspices of iconic artists Salif Touré and Oumou Sangaré before moving to France to study law. In between, she starred in a documentary titled TheGreat Green Wall, about Africa’s ambitious project to restore degraded landscapes in the Sahel. By holding back the expansion of the desert, the initiative seeks to cou