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Nare Productions

Fatoumata Diawara's own Paris production company, formed 2025 to hold the masters and publishing on her album Massa.

Based in
Paris, France
Founded
2025

Nare Productions is a Paris production company set up in 2025 as a société par actions simplifiée. The French company register names its president as Fatamouta Diawara, born February 1982, a spelling one letter from the name the Malian artist Fatoumata Diawara performs and releases under; no document seen by this desk reconciles the two spellings. The artist’s own website footer reads “Fatoumata Diawara . Nare Productions,” independently tying the company to her.

Nare Productions owns the phonographic copyright in Diawara’s 2026 album Massa, which it licenses exclusively to the French label Nø Førmat!. The album’s credit block also names it as a publisher of the compositions, alongside Labo M. It is, on the evidence available, a single-artist vehicle rather than a label with an outside roster.

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