Jain

“I could not have asked for a better childhood.”

“My music was about travelling a lot and connecting with other people, and English is the voice of travelling.”

“When I like an artist, especially a female artist, I really try to support.”

“Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.”

“Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.”

“My favourite place was in The Congo. It's where I began to write songs and build myself as an adult.”

“I'm from a little town from the south tip of France, to be able to play in Coachella and meet other artists from all over the world and to connect with people that I love from my hometown is something amazing.”

“What I want to tell people is that you can mix the culture a little bit and it's not always appropriation.”

“I want to have Congolese influences but also influences from Dubai and Abu Dhabi and France. To mix everything up.”

“My mother is half-French, half-Malagasy, so I've been listening to African music, like Malian and Congolese music, since I was a child.”

“Going to the U.A.E. for the first time was a real cultural shock. Everything was different. People didn't speak my language, it was all new, a huge change. But I loved it.”

“I'm from the Southwest, and in the Southwest of France, you're not supposed to love Paris.”

“I could never imagine ever in my life that I'd be on the side of The Louvre.”

“For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.”

“When I was nine, I was passing by a drum class and saw them playing and I was moved. That's why I started making music.”

“Cultural appropriation is a big problem, but the thing is, I didn't invent my life. I really lived in Africa.”

“I'm someone who is quite shy, and onstage I'm quite... extrovert.”

“I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.”

“We shouldn't be scared of love.”

“When I travel I always try to see shows from a local group, and with the Internet it's important to have a global vision of music.”