Jain

“I thought it was beautiful to be able to forgive and give love and to fight only with flowers. So I created the idea of a 'Souldier,' which is like an army guy but fights for love.”

“Making music you can dance to is very important to me.”

“When I started making music, I wanted to enjoy it and make others enjoy it. But it's just music. I am not saving the world.”

“I think it's hard when you're a woman because the music industry is way more masculine than feminine, so you have to make your own space and fight for it.”

“At 16 I was living in the Congo, and, you know, it's your teenage time. I really wanted to find a way to express myself, so I started to write songs in the Congo, and I think that's why my music is quite open, with a lot of different influences.”

“I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that's a very natural thing to do.”

“Moving from Dubai to the Congo was one of the best things that happened to me, it's a shock to be confronted by the contrast in wealth and culture, and it's hard, but I loved it and it influenced me a lot.”

“Music is like my secret garden. It's where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It's like a therapy.”

“When I was little, I was listening to the Beatles, Bob Marley, Janis Joplin, and stuff. I had a big soul music culture, and not so much a French one.”

“I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.”

“Music is open-minded and has always travelled, every country takes something from another, and that's what makes the richness of music.”

“You may hear from my fabulous accent that I'm French!”

“I realised that I really liked to be on stage, and that I wanted to pursue it.”

“I've been to India, Jordan, South Africa, Namibia, Senegal, Australia, Madagascar, Oman, The States, and a lot of countries in Europe, just to visit... I wanted to make music to connect all of these influences, and make a multicultural music with these experiences.”

“I always write about something that moves me.”

“My music would be very, very different if I haven't traveled.”

“Sometimes people stop me on the street and they say 'when are you going to make the next 'Zanaka' and it's what I really didn't want to do.”

“I just write about what makes me sad, and then when I write, I hear myself. It's like therapy, where I write something sad and then I make it happier or hopeful.”

“I just wanna write about what I am living as a citizen. That's all.”

“I quietly work with my computer on the tour bus, and then I wait to make my more natural rhythms when I get home.”