Diamond World Tour comes to Rabat: Rihanna, R & B and pop superstar and 7-time Grammy winner, will be the main attraction on opening night of this year’s Mawazine music festival in Rabat, Morocco.
UPDATE — Click here for full Mawazine program
Mawazine Festival (Rabat, Morocco, April 30, 2013) — Music superstar Rihanna is performing on opening night for the 12th Edition of the Mawazine Festival, Rhythms of the World, Friday May 24th, 2013 on the stage of the OLM Souissi in Rabat. The R & B and pop icon’s performance before an estimated crowd of more than 70,000, will be part of her Diamonds World Tour, which is currently on tour in North America.
Winner of seven Grammy Awards, Rihanna is currently dominating worldwide charts with the new title Diamonds, and the single from her seventh album Unapologetic has helped Rihanna win the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the 12th time.
She currently holds the record for the best-selling digital artist of all times, and Forbes magazine has named Rihanna #1 worldwide on social networks, with more than 2.9 billion pages viewed on YouTube / Vevo, more than 63 million fans on Facebook, and over 27 million followers on Twitter.
Rihanna performed in Bob Marley tribute at 2013 Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 10) in L.A.
Each spring in May, the Mawazine Festival has rocked Rabat to the sounds of music from the four corners of the Earth, including exceptional artists such as Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, Shakira, Mika, Sugababes, Stevie Wonder, Kylie Minogue, LMFAO, Pitbull, and Alicia Keys.
Rihanna won her 7th Grammy award at the 55th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, for Best Short Form Music Video, with “We Found Love.”
Rihanna in her music video for “Diamonds.” NY Daily News
Mawazine this year will take place from the May 24th to June 1st. Below is a list of the performers confirmed for the various Mawazine venues.
For more details on the program, go to the Mawazine website.
International stars in OLM Souissi stage:
Rihanna will open the festival as a part of her (Diamonds World Tour), then Jessie J (Nice to Meet You Tour), MIKA, Sexion d’Assaut, The Jacksons (Unity Tour), David Guetta, Deep Purple (Now What? World Tour), Enrique Iglesias during his (Enrique Iglesias India Tour) feauturing the Moroccan-Swedish pop star Loreen, the international k-pop icon PSY is the opening act for the last night of the festival and finally rumours for AbdelMounaim Benakki, Taio Cruz the last date is still to announce.
Arab stars in Nahda stage:
Mouhcine Salahdine, Sherine Abdel Wahab, Farid Ghennam, Bouchra Khalid, Mohamed Mounir, Rabab, Cheb Mami, Abed, Najwa Karam, Zakaria Ghafouli, Assi El Hellani, Mourad Bouriki, Shada Hassoun, Ahlam, Hatim Ammor, Hoda Saad, Leila Al Maghribiya , Ahmed Chawki, Tamer Hosni.
Moroccan scene in Salé stage:
Siham, Jil Ghiwan Jalal, Ghiwane Salwan, LooNope, Jbara, Mjid Bekkas, Aouatif, Mohamed Anbari, Fatim Zahra Laaroussi, Atika Ammar, Numedia et Mallal, Izenzaren Abdelhadi, M.boy, Barry, Casa Crew, Hamid Kasri, Chaht Man, H-Kayne, Don Bigg, Ben Moussa, Hajib, Rachid Lamrini, Mohammed Iskandar , Najat Atabou, Tarik Laamirat,Said Mouskir, Hamid Hadri.
Other stars other stages:
Haj Youness, Amir Ali, Leila Lamrini, Tinariwen, African United, Gnawa Diffusion, Amadou & Meriem, Blitz The Ambassador, George Benson, Bond Girls, Sandra Nkaké, Lotfi Bouchnak, Abdelwahab Doukkali, Patrizia Laquidara, Ensemble Dragon.
