In Réunion Creole, “kozé” means “to chat, to communicate.” The group’s aim is to share their island’s folk traditions. With rouleur, kayamb, piqueur and sati instruments setting the tempo, the music of Kozé—winners of Syli Bronze de la musique du monde in 2025—is as wild and refreshing as the ocean, as dense and precious as the forest, as rugged and impetuous as a volcano and 100% Maloya. Listed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2009, Mayola, with its almost sacred aura, harks back to the time of slavery and later became a kind of protest anthem: a song, a music, a dance… an identity.
