INTERVIEW
Belgium has its new musical talent. Lous and the Yakuza have released only two titles and yet it is already the revelation of the year. His hit, Dilemme, already has millions of views on YouTube. Marie-Pierra Kakoma, her real name, at 23 years old and already experienced exile, racism and street: from Rwanda by her mother, she leaves for Belgium alone, 15 years to open art and live from his music. And today, Lous and the Yakuza is determined. She wants to make music and nothing else.
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I'm religious, for me everything comes from above
This strength, it is also from Mozambique, the origins of his father: "there it is often said: 'if you want to be a shoemaker, be the best shoemaker in the village.It means that if I want to be a singer, you have to that I'm the best singer, "she recalls at the microphone of Europe 1. On her face, Lous and The Yakuza writes daily with makeup small letters on the cheeks, false tears under the eyes or on his forehead, a character, arms in the air, looking up at the sky ...
"It's a symbol that I created because first of all, I'm religious, for me everything comes from above, and also because it's a movement we do when we're extremely happy or when we are extremely sad, so it represents both exaltation and lament ... emotions that best represent my character, "she says.
Lous and The Yakuza will release their first album in March.