Generation Covid: singer Lous tells about her life under "certificate"

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The Belgian-Congolese singer Lous, leader of the group Lous and the Yakuza.

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Despite the restrictions, young people are able to make themselves heard, especially in music.

Lous is one of the revelations of 2020. The Belgian-Congolese singer also competes in this category, “Revelation”, at the Victoires de la musique awarded this Friday in Paris.

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A life under attestation 

" is how Lous describes the last few months when, despite everything, she managed to put the finishing touches to her first album, "Gore", with her group The Yakuza.

Months of restrictions, canceled concerts, but also meetings, virtual or not, which she tells at the microphone of

Sébastien Jédor

of the Culture department of RFI. 

Resilience, Lous knows what it is, she who saw her mother imprisoned in the DRC, she who lived in the streets in Belgium and suffered rape that she recounts 

Lous, the hyperactive, does not feel sorry for himself.

Barely returned from Rwanda, where she lived, she is working on a second album, without giving up the project of writing a novel. 

►Also read: Lous and the Yakuza, Congo on edge

►Also listen: Lous and the Yakuza, Soldier of Love

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