 Eusèbe Jaojoby ( born 29 July 1955 ) , commonly known by his surname Jaojoby [ ˈdzodzubʲ ] , is a Malagasy composer and singer of salegy , a musical style of northwestern Madagascar . Critics consider him to be one of the originators of the modern salegy style that emerged in the 1970s , and credit him with transforming the genre from an oral tradition into a more modern form. sierpabéry (literally "months of August" in Malagasy) is a 1993 Malagasy film directed by Roger Andrianjafy , starring Eusèbe Jaojoby and Sambatra Ralivao