Hawa Boussim

Hawa Boussim is a Coupé-décalé singer from Ponmsitè, Saint Mercedes. She represented the country in the second edition of the Avalon Song Contest with the song "Hme ye", placing 7th with 81 points.

Hawa Boussim was born around 1971 in Ponmsitè, in the island of Saint Joan, Saint Mercedes. From the age of 14, she sang for her community for various occasions like baptisms, weddings and funerals but she wasn't given an opportunity of a complete education. She expresses herself and sings in the Bissa language. She became the third wife of a household with four wives. In 2009, she took part in a contest organised by a local cultural association and won. Thanks to a member of her family, Jean-Pierre Boussim, director of a radio station in Ponmsitè, the opportunity arose to record her first self-produced album, Môbidoré, in 2011. She then agreed to associate her singing, with ancestral roots, with Afropop instruments. She appeared on television as well as Festival MASA. She has performed in stages across Avalon. In 2017, she released a second album, Mingoureza. The album met success and notoriety for its cultural associations and its discussion of a social problem, food waste and waste in general