Bowa
A pianist trained in classical music and jazz, from Martinique to Berklee, reinventing Creole pop as a futuristic manifesto: welcome to the Futurhizome
Biography
Bowa is the solo alter ego of Maher Beauroy, a pianist, singer and composer born in Martinique — the name, pronounced the same way, comes from his own surname. Under this name, he develops a futuristic Creole pop he calls “Futurhizome”: a dialogue between tradition and modernity, where pop and electro meet Creole rhythms and Afro-pop.
His path explains the hybrid: piano from the age of five at the Martinique Music Academy, then SERMAC — the art school founded by Aimé Césaire — where he discovered jazz; Paris in 2006, with a DEM at the Maurice Ravel Conservatory and a master’s in Music Business at the Sorbonne; then Berklee College of Music in Boston from 2014, crowned by the Performance Division Piano Award in 2017. He is also an associate composer at Tropiques Atrium, Martinique’s national stage.
Under his own name, he released Washa! (2019) and Insula (2022), an album around the work of Frantz Fanon, created with Sélène Saint-Aimé and Qaïs Saadi. As Bowa: the EP MVT (2024) — for “Mové Tan”, bad weather in Creole — carried by “Tousel A Dé”, then the EP WAV (2025) and its Afro-pop single “An Nou”, a song about the end of a love story.
Upcoming dates
- Thursday November 19, 2026 — Vitrine officielle · Rythmes Nocturnes — Mundial Montréal 2026 — 19 h 30 · Foufounes Électriques, Montréal (Canada) — Official page ↗
Public dates — collected from the artist's official channels on November 9, 2026.
Discography
As Maher Beauroy: Washa! (2019), Insula (2022) · As Bowa: MVT (EP, 2024), WAV (EP, 2025)
Gallery
On stage
- 19 November 2026, 7:30 p.m. — Montréal, Foufounes Électriques — “Rythmes Nocturnes” night, official Mundial Montréal showcase
On video — their Mundial Montréal 2026 showcase
The official presentation video of Bowa for Mundial Montréal 2026: Thursday, November 19, 2026 · Foufounes Électriques, Montreal. Video © Mundial Montréal — provided to Festival TV in the festival's official media kit.