Rajae's development in music

Pioneer with an interdisciplinary signature

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Rajae works, records and performs in the Netherlands and abroad. Her sound is Maghreb - Pop, Soul & Jazz. Over the years, Rajae has recorded in Holland, Paris, London, California, Hollywood & Austin and Morocco with producers including Barbara Streisand, Aaliyah, Ziggy Marley and 2Pac. She self-published the albums Incarnation, Hand of Fatima, the EP Watani and short film HOPE! (Nominated for an NFF award). Her close friendship with Malcolm X's grandson resulted in a song, video and portrait. She has also worked with artists such as Raymzter, Chris Hinze, Amir Sulaiman and Richard Bona who's been a great coach to Rajae. He supported and pushed her early in her devopment to integrate her roots into contemporary music and taught her to make no concessions artistically.

Rajae opened for (Cheb) Khaled and the Rabozaal/Melkweg and performed and toured throughout the Netherlands, as well as in Paris, Morocco, the US and Qatar in theaters, pop stages and festivals. In the Netherlands Rajae performed at Paradiso, the Concertgebouw, Carre, the main stage of several Liberation Festivals, Sail, Wereldfeest Utrecht, Amsterdam Roots Festival, De Balie, De Rode Hoed, De Nieuwe Liefde, Tolhuistuin, Paleis op de Dam and many theaters and theaters in the Netherlands.

Futher reasearch and broadening artistic signature from 2016
After the release of her EP Watani (my homeland), she began exploring a broader artistic palette and signature. This resulted in research in the Netherlands, Morocco, the US and Qatar, musical theater performances, lecture performances, exhibitions and many other spin offs.

New work and new release planned for 2025
Lion & Gazelle, is a full-length music theater performance that Rajae is currently developing with Sinfonia Rotterdam (23-piece orchestra), with whom she has arranged six of her own songs and a cover by Souad Massi 'Raoui' for voice and orchestra. Since 2018, they successfully performed together on various occasions. Lion & Gazelle will premiere as an interdisciplinary and multimedia performance in late '24. Subsequently, it will be released as an album/vinyl release.

Corporate studio work
In order to work autonomously and gain extensive production and studio experience, in addition to her artistic practice, Rajae has periodically worked as a creative producer for corporate clients such as NIKE, TNT, Maersk, Vodafone, Samsung, Sybase and Rotana (ever since 2007). Over the years she has also been hired for corporate studio assignments, focusing on the Western Arab niche market. Resulting in a broad niche specialty portfolio. Rajae is the corporate radio jingle voice of MBC FM Saudi, Panorama FM Saudi, Power FM, Lebanon, Radio Al Rabia, UAE, Al Ula FM, Saudi and Arabel FM, Brussels.