In Morocco, descended from slaves who have been brought in the golden age of the empire of Morocco (ends 16th century AD) from the western black Africa, which was then called the Western or Ghana Empire of Sudan (the current state of Mali, in particular) .otzmah Gnawa is the distortion of the right of the original name he is «Kenya» (Guinea), or servants of Guinea, as they were always called before the full integration of the Moroccan society and still «way Gnawa» present in many cities and villages of Morocco, even today, especially in the cities of Marrakech, Essaouira, Rabat and Meknes and enjoy the city Essaouira prestigiously spiritual city of I. Inside of Morocco, it was the sea port of the city since the 17th century, however on the coast of the Atlantic commercial hub, and a point of commercial exchange with Timbuktu, the capital of the black African Muslim at the time, including the slaves come with gold to Morocco.
The tomb of «Sidi Bilal» located west of the city of Essaouira supreme, and serves as the spiritual Gnawa father, and inside the tomb of that saint, there is a corner that embraces the twentieth of the month of Shaaban's annual season range Gnawa and the rhythm of powerful music and warm groups affiliated to the community, a group of followers out In tours between cities to collect gifts and charity of the corner, in its distinctive folkloric clothing with vivid colors, especially red and blue. The famous «Gnawa» musicians exceeded the Moroccan border, to embrace the world since embarked on the organization of an annual festival for «Gnawa and World Music» in Essaouira in the month of June, and the secret lies in that it is not just an ordinary music, it is music with powerful rhythms laden with weighty myths and beliefs entrenched In the foot, and is laden with African, Berber and Arab cultural heritage. This kind of music is called in Tunisia by the Istinbali
Gnawa is rooted in African ethnic diversity in Morocco and its relationship with the depths of the Sahara. We are talking about people who came to Morocco to sing in the villages their warm songs and cheerful colors, their quiet brown accents, their energetic, lively and vibrant dances coming from the depths of the desert to breathe life into North Africa and color it with a new culture and blood. The big drum), and the Carpathians and Aljhjouj .. stand in front of them or hear them Marin Vmarson us their metaphysical charm with their dances and their colors and colors ... We become servants of the slaves of yesterday! They are attracted to their musical instruments in the circumstances of forced displacement from their homes, and we are given music that has traveled the world by virtue of the uniqueness of its rhythms. The attractive means the transcendence of the limits of man, which is inhibited by creativity. It frightens Western thought and rational rational thought. , It is joy and salvation and self-liquidation, it is life and freedom of creativity and awakening to the living repressed in the depths of the soul and memory. Where every ritual of Gnaoua becomes a race for the body and the soul