Rennes (AFP)
Strong themes - rape, prostitution, cancer - in a r'n'b, soul and trap formwork: Lous and the Yakuza, Marie-Pierra Kakoma in the city, has unveiled in residence at the Trans Musicales of Rennes her future album, planned for 2020 and highly anticipated.
"Dilemma" (more than a million views on YouTube) and "Tout est gore" (delivered Friday), the first two singles, are just appetizers. The audience of Rennes - five evenings scheduled - have already tasted the shock-song, "4 o'clock in the morning", on the rape, where the artist marries in a powerful voice the point of view of the aggressed and the 'aggressor.
The audience remains taped. "In the room, there is tears or an incredible silence, of marble, I never know what to say after this piece, it touches me + of phew + the way people pick up this raw story", comments for AFP the singer of 23 years.
"I write my texts very spontaneously, I said to myself: + am I going to make a couplet on the rapist? + Yes, I wanted to put light on the evil, otherwise it is not treated. It's like racism, otherwise you will make the same mistakes again and again, "she continues, from the top of a path that feeds his texts, like a Stromae.
- "Galères", "to the street" -
"There is the will to tell the truth, with good songs, which takes several musical forms, like +4 am +, where I need power in production, while + Amigo + talks about cancer, what nobody notices because there is a festive atmosphere, but it is wanted.
No misery in this luminous young woman on stage - she makes a public dance at first sitting in movie chairs - as in interview: "My way is pissed off (laughs), it still needs 40 lines in the press articles to describe the context of the artist (laughs) ".
"My family fled the war in 2000 in Congo, I arrived in Belgium at the age of 4, then I left Belgium in 2005 for Rwanda, back in Belgium in 2011". Then come the "galleys" - "really finished a year and a half ago" - when she finds herself "on the street" after a clash with her parents.
"It was mostly because of my stubbornness, not because of them, they just tried to be the best parents in the world - they are, by the way, extremely intelligent, out of the ordinary, I love them - but when I'm 18 years old, they are doctors, would have preferred that I do medicine, no other option, I'm the music and it's the first big + no + they took themselves, it was something. .. "
- "No harassment nor revenge" -
The situation has normalized in large family mode, happy family. "We are four children, plus all the others that my parents did not lay! We are children + + +, every child invites his two-three best friends: the holidays to six - two parents, four children - it does not does not exist, we are still 45! (laughs) "
And then, there is this song, "Air Flow", which deals with prostitution, "something that follows me for a long time". "I interviewed, as a journalist, many prostitutes when I was on the street, I was always very intrigued, especially in their relationship with their child," she says.
Return the meanders of his past. "I was poor, out in the street, + how do I eat? + The idea crossed my mind, I had already exhausted all my drug deal schemes and the stress that goes with it. you are at the bottom, you fall in circles where + All is gore + (new song) and that's where we make you this kind of proposals ".
Is she retaliating today? "No, I've always wanted to + fuck the game + (succeed) No sting or revenge, my intentions are love, goodness, truth Negative stuff is in my lyrics In life, the biggest fights are for bigger soldiers ".
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