Shine, shine on even brighter! That’s the message this Cape Verdean artist promotes with her song “Shine,” from her self-titled album. This sunny spirit, who has carved out a special place for herself in the global Rasta family, is coming back to call on us to seek the light and to adopt a positive attitude with our heads held high. This is Mo’s Zion, her Eden on Earth.

After five albums and twelve years devoted to reggae, this singer-songwriter, now based in Paris, radiates Afro-American and Jamaican influences, looking to Kingston for inspiration. Far from being a calamity, Mo’Kalamity brings good fortune to everyone she crosses paths with. She has collaborated with some of reggae’s most prolific ambassadors, including Sly & Robbie, with whom she celebrated women’s innate power on “Strength of a Woman” and pleaded for the laying down of arms on “Throw down your guns.” In Africa, the ancestral Rastafarian homeland, Mo’Kalamity has also collaborated with the Ivorian artist Tiken Jah Fakoly, as on the song “Le Pouvoir,” illuminating democracy and self-awakening.

This artist’s aura is one of spirituality. She doesn’t go in for the showy “bling bling” culture but is true to Bob Marley’s legacy, dreads to the wind. Her songs are driven by her commitment to a quest for humanity. With her free spirit and soul, the artist’s wide-ranging singing voice takes us skyward, as if she were floating high above all concerns, smiling with serenity. But make no mistake, whether at the Paname Reggae Festival at Paris’s Cabaret Sauvage or in New York, audiences go wild for Mo’Kalamity, already a reggae legend throughout Europe, and her band The Wizards. So, “big up” to this outstanding artist. Let’s show her that Montreal offers a Zion experience she won’t want to forget…