Since her birth in Algeria, where she lived until age 18, Zaho has been able to measure the difficulty of having dreams and an artistic sensibility. Zaho grew up in Algiers, in a popular district. Listed by his father to music lessons, she learned the guitar at 7 years.

At 10 years, she already directory Francis Cabrel. "I was the only daughter of the neighborhood to play soccer with the guys, only to play the guitar," she recalls. Issue an educated family (father framework, mother professor at the university), Zaho asserts its difference. "Strangely, my parents' generation was more open than ours. We, we had to try. " Zaho opens new worlds through music, that of Idir as that of Tracy Chapman. She discovered the french rap MC Solaar, NTM and IAM, takes it intends songs on the radio. The helping hand of fate comes in 1999, when she emigrated with her family in Canada. "There is every man for himself. Because I was alone, I asked what was really the dream of my life. And I realized it was singing. "

Zaho meeting of producers, discovers the world of studios, begins to ask his voice on a few choruses, imposes its first featurings. Missy Elliott, an example of creativity and cons to all, is one of his influences. Very quickly, Zaho becomes a pro studios. She puts her studies in brackets and devotes himself fully to music. His mentor is Phil Greiss, a producer french installed in Canada. The buzz is insisting and arrives in France. "Without being arrogant, I said no to most of the proposals because I did not want to be in the spotlight at any cost". With Phil, Zaho to shape a sound. And continues to write songs: "The wheel spins," Assassine "," Incomprise "and" Dima ", which will give its title to the album are written at the time. "There are a lot of pieces that are born of a jam. Phil is the piano, he pulls out a melody line, I have a chorus, I began to improvise… For other titles, I was talking about the mood of the song and I was made to measure ".

Zaho not seeking the tube but consistency. It cultivates its difference. Before finishing his album, she made a decisive meeting: Idir, the giant music kabyle. "I wrote a song for him and I offered him one evening in backstage before the concert. Barely I started the first lines that I said "this is wonderful, but if I take it provided that you chantiez with me". Thus Zaho sang a duet with Idir the very moving song "All this time" and was found to coordinate artistic flagship title of the album La France colours. When Zaho putting the final touches on his first album, it has already grown his garden musical, full of songs that adults are all slices of life. Dima is a first original disc, among several worlds, tinged with r & b with flashbacks of Arabic music and a touch of hip hop. Zaho has also dipped his pen in ink on his memories, reliving the painful moments of departure from Algeria in "Kif'n'dir", dedicated to his country it has left "one way charter." The music is in tune with the voice, organic. "On the first version, there were synthetic violins. It was coming violinists for the extra emotion that they could make. On "You do not merit" and "Everything vibe well," brought a guitarist, "says Zaho.

"My journey" that evokes a childhood spent wandering in the neighborhood, "chew life with teeth". Voice soul, unique flow between rap and song: Zaho stands out of r & b without substance that floods the airwaves. It is shocking on "Incomprise," a flower piece of skin at a two-way text ( "I am a coward because I was thrown into the empty / I deployed my wings to a future / By sight is beautiful but I realize / That without parachute, fear paralyzes "). "I know exactly what I want, which puts me at ease. I do not defined as a singer r & b or hip hop, I prefer to be difficult to describe, and say that I do with the urban pop. " The two guests of the album also came bitumen: Bashir alias Tunisiano for "The wheel spins, but also the Marseillais Soprano for a" Hey papi "explosive. The loop is completed. A new adventure begins for Zaho, the album Dima, an Arabic word meaning "forever". "I am aware of the issue," she concludes, "I want to give pleasure and to give pleasure to others."

This time, Zaho is ready. His world is defined, his voice has found the ideal musical backdrop to wear his words. It is obvious to those who know: 2008 is the year Zaho.